It’s now a place of pilgrimage for a new generation of fans around the globe. Hook adds that he recently visited Ian’s grave at Macclesfield Cemetery. Ian’s best friend (Kelvin Biggs), who is a good friend of mine, has got the collection now and we’re planning to do a podcast about it”. “His wife (Debbie) took it off the turntable and put it with the rest of the records. Iggy Pop’s The Idiot was said to be the last record Curtis played before his death from suicide. He is currently planning to sift through the late singer’s original vinyl collection. “Carole Kaye didn’t write the bass lines, she confesses to being a session player but my appreciation came from her riffs and melodies”.Īs Hooky suggests there is a lot of myth about the life of Ian Curtis. Tony Fox Sales had himself been inspired by another of Hook’s favourites.
“They were a hell of a unit the Sales brothers,” says Hook of an essential early bass influence. I remember thinking, “What the fuck is this about? Telling everyone to fuck off? I could do that – I could tell everyone to fuck off!’Ī few months after seeing perhaps the most legendary gig in Manchester’s music history, they would have a once-in-lifetime experience when Iggy Pop was backed by David Bowie, also in the band was the Sales Brothers, later of Tin Machine. “I remember everything about it, the feedback was fucking horrible.
“I saw them four times, twice at the Lesser Free Trade Hall and twice at the Electric Circus,” he tells us. Smith on 4 June 1976, Hook realised what he needed to do with his life. At that famous gig also attended by Morrissey and Mark E.