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Love Will Tear Us Apart

1980 · via Joy Division

Joy Division recorded “Love Will Tear Us Apart” in 1980. Joy Division wrote it with Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner. This is the first recording of the song. Also recorded by Paul Young (1983), Invisible Limits (1989) and Kismet (1995), among 403 recordings on file.

Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
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Robert Smith has said this band shaped The Cure's sound, and here he pays the debt in person by recording their best-known song. Play them back to back and listen for what he kept.

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Written by Joy Division, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner.

First recorded by Joy Division in 1980: this is the first recording.

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403 recordings of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” on MusicBrainz in all.

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