Peter Hook

Gorillaz played a free show for NHS health care workers and their families, and they brought all the guest stars, too.

“It was important to us that we did something that was interesting — it’s nice that it still makes a difference.”

“There’s nothing like it, no one else sounds like Joy Division,” the Blur/Gorillaz frontman said on the new Joy Division/New Order podcast.

The new podcast features all four original members of New Order (three of whom were in Joy Division), plus members of Radiohead, Sonic Youth, Primal Scream, Stereolab, Oasis, and more.

World Mental Health Day is Saturday, October 10, and to help promote it, street artist Akse P19 has painted a mural of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis…

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New Order are an amazing singles band but their robust catalog offers so much more. Here are their best deep cuts, which are essential listening to anyone who already loves “Age of Consent,” “Blue Monday,” “Bizarre Love Triangle,” “Ceremony,” “True Faith” and “Regret.”

Joy Division’s second and final alum, ‘Closer,’ celebrated its 40th anniversary on July 18. “I really do feel like this LP is Ian [Curtis]’s masterpiece,” Hook said.

You can also read tributes to Morricone from Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, Edgar Wright, Steven Van Zandt, Chance the Rapper, New Order, Duran Duran, Biz Markie, The Flaming Lips’ Steven Drozd, Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch, Jean Michel Jarre, and more.

Joy Division’s non-LP singles “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” “Atmosphere” and “Transmission” are all also getting new vinyl reissues.