Love Will Tear Us Apart
April 1980 (7 ") June 1980 (12 ")
History
The song was just before the suicide of the singer and lyricist of Joy Division, Ian Curtis published in April 1980, and peaked in the UK charts position 13
The song was completely taken three times. The three shots in November 1979, in January 1980, and in March 1980 differ, among other things, a text version in the second stanza. In the version of November 1979 (recorded for a John Peel Session ) states "have our feelings run dry", in the versions of January and March 1980, there is " our respect run so dry". The latest version is also represented on Substance.
In June 1980, the song as a 12 "maxi- single was released on Factory Records catalog number FAC 23. The B- side of the Maxi contains a shorter version of the title song These Days. , The otherwise black cover of the Maxi shows the black and white photography a lying angel figure of the French photographer Bernard Pierre Wolff, who sculpted the cover photograph for the Joy Division album Closer.
In 1983 the song was released again, this time it reached position 19 in the British charts. The song is also located on the Substance compilation published in 1988 and on the soundtrack to the movie Donnie Darko from the year 2001.
Love Will Tear Us Apart was selected by the New Musical Express for the best single of all time in 2003 and is listed in the list of the 500 greatest songs of all time Rolling Stone magazine ranked 181.
Curtis' widow Deborah left the sentence "Love Will Tear Us Apart" chisel on the stone grave of her husband, which was stolen in July 2008 by unknown and had to be replaced by a new stone.
Cover versions
There are many cover versions of the song, among others, Paul Young, The Cure, New Order, Moonspell, the Swans, The Frames, In The Nursery, The King, Vasko, chutzpah, Fall Out Boy (as Acoustic version on the disk My Heart Will find Always Be the B- Side to My Tongue ), Adam Green, Squarepusher, Evelyn Evelyn, Calexico, The Shanes, Nerina Pallot, Unbroken, Invisible Limits, José González, Phillip Boa, John Jones of Oysterband with June Tabor (on the Live CD the Big session Vol 1) the type, Nouvelle Vague, Michelle Darkness, Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, Honeyroot, the Blood Divine ( on the compilation Peaceville X), Final Virus ( as a live version on the album Superheroes and Phat Pink Elephants, recorded at Spuugh Festival in Vaals / NL), Culture Kultür on their 2010 album Spirit erschienenem ( Caustic Records) and Matthew Scott. As there is a bootleg version of Arcade Fire with U2.