Touching from a Distance is the most comprehensive biography ever written of Ian Curtis and Joy Division. In minute detail, Deborah Curtis introduces us to Ian's life: his childhood, his illness, his suicide, and the emergence of Joy Division as a key band on the Manchester postpunk scene in the late 1970s. Public life and private life converge and they show us what is behind the creation of a myth that, decades later, is still valid and growing.
Edited for the first time in Argentina by Dobra Robota, with a foreword by Jon Savage, lyrics by Joy Division, unpublished lyrics and unfinished texts by Ian Curtis.
“I celebrate the courage that Deborah Curtis showed in writing this book, and I believe it will help heal a wound that has been open for fifteen years. Perhaps it will also help us to understand the nature of the obsession that continues to haunt rock culture: the romantic idea of ​​the artist in torment, too fast to live, too young to die. This is the myth that started with Thomas Chatterton and still lives on through Rudolf Valentino, James Dean, Sid Vicious, Ian Curtis, and Kurt Cobain. Touching from a Distance shows the human cost of that myth ”(from Jon Savage's foreword).