Co-founded by bassist Peter Hook, guitarist Bernard Sumner, drummer Stephen Morris, and the brooding, charismatic singer lan Curtis, Joy Division scorched the British punk-rock landscape, planting the ...

Hook formed New Order in 1980 with Joy Division bandmates Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris after the death of Ian Curtis, but left in 2007 It’s been nearly 20 years since New Order’s founding bassist ...

Peter Hook also recounts how he was “over the moon” when Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis used the bassline as a vocal part ...

The Gallaghers have made up, but for those who enjoy a longstanding band feud, there’s still Peter Hook versus his former bandmates, New Order. “I don’t think they’re New Order,” Peter Hook tells The ...

Forgive New Order fans if they took the lyric “I used to think that the day would never come” from 1987’s “True Faith” and applied it to the chances of the band ever playing Pittsburgh again. It has ...

Legendary bassist Peter Hook was one quarter of Joy Division, and he played in New Order from the band's 1980 beginning until 2007, when he split bitterly with his longtime bandmate Bernard Sumner.

Peter Hook will mark the 50th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ legendary Manchester gig with a one-off show next year. The former New Order bassist was in attendance at the first of the iconic gigs at ...

Peter Hook played bass in Joy Division, the short-lived but highly regarded post-punk British band, as well as Joy Division’s massively popular successor, New Order. Hook left New Order in 2007, ...