About the Author

Peter Hook was born in 1956 in Salford.  He was a founding member of Joy Division and New Order and DJs internationally as well as touring Joy Division’s music with his new band The Light.  He lives in Cheshire

Reviews

‘Rock writing rarely tells us properly what a band treading water or in slow decline feels like from the inside. Hook does so memorably.’
*Guardian*

‘The 768 pages will delight both New Order-ites and general rock readers, revealing the astonishing human bathos behind this group's godly future-rock […] The way Joy Division and New Order combined high art with base behaviour is well established but this book rides that tandem to new dimensions […] but there's much more than carnage’ 
*Mojo*

‘Set against a lurid backdrop of orgiastic tours, awash with drink, drugs, and a debauched retinue of dealers, hookers and mad roadies, Hook drawing from a seemingly bottomless well of outrageous anecdotes, many of them hilarious and told with the same droll voice that delighted readers of The Haçienda: How Not to Run a Club’ 
*Uncut*

‘Epic rock tale of sex, drugs and jealousy […] A must for fans, it's wildly funny and revelatory'
*The Sun*