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Touching from a Distance is the only in-depth biographical account of the legendary singer of Joy Division, written by his widow. It documents how, with a wife, child and impending international fame, Ian Curtis was seduced by the glory of an early grave. Regarded as the essential book on the essential icon of the post-punk era. "Touching from a Distance" includes a full set of Curtis's lyrics and a discography and gig list.

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Deborah Woodruff Curtis (born in Liverpool, England, 1956), is the widow of Joy Division vocalist and lyricist Ian Curtis, who committed suicide in 1980. She has one child, Natalie (1979), with her late husband.

In 1995, she published a biography, titled Touching From a Distance, which dealt with the private life she shared with her late husband. Since 1994 she has been working on a film project based on Curtis, titled Control.

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Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Faber & Faber, London (4. Oktober 2007)
Sprache ‏ : ‎ Englisch
Taschenbuch ‏ : ‎ 212 Seiten
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0571239560
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0571239566
Abmessungen ‏ : ‎ 12.7 x 1.91 x 20.32 cm

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Ich kann jedem, der interessiert an der Geschichte von Joy Division und Ian Curtis ist, Touching From A Distance empfehlen. Deborah Curtis beschreibt Ians Jugend, die musikalischen Anfänge und den Werdegang von Joy Division relativ ausführlich. Man muss natürlich beachten, dass das Buch eben aus der Sicht der Frau geschrieben ist und aufgrund dessen auch etwas einseitig ist und nicht unbedingt das beste Bild von Ian Curtis wiedergibt. Die Grundstimmung des Buches ist meiner Meinung nach eher negativ, was ich allerdings auch nachvollziehen kann. Der Schreibstil ist wirklich nicht der Beste, oftmals etwas sprunghaft und man hat oft das Gefühl, dass einfach etwas fehlt. Erklärungen, ausschweifende Gedanken und tiefgehende Gefühle wird man darin nicht finden. Dennoch finde ich, dass das Buch einen guten Einblick gibt und eine gute Basis schafft, wenn man vielleicht eher weniger über Joy Divison und Ian Curtis weiß. Mir hat es im Großen und Ganzen gefallen und es hat auf jeden Fall ein großes Interesse bei mir ausgelöst. Ich empfehle dazu noch den Film Control, der eine andere Seite widerspiegelt und zusammen mit dem Buch relativ gut Auskunft gibt, was wohl wie passiert ist.

Positiv finde ich zudem die Bilder, die im Mittelteil enthalten sind und die Lyrics am Ende des Buches. Was mich eher weniger interessiert hat, waren die Auftrittdaten, die ausführlich aufgeführt werden - meiner Meinung nach taten sie oftmals nichts zur Sache, aber dies ist nur meine subjektive Wahrnehmung.

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Informative and interesting book about Ian Curtis. Singer of the band Joy Division.

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This short but interesting book about Ian Curtis’ life before and while he was in the band Joy Division, previously called Warsaw. Touching from a distance was written by his wife and she tells you interesting things.

I find it very courageous that she had the guts to go public with Ian’s medical problems, their personal couple issues… I wished I knew more but I’m grateful nevertheless.

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Simsalabim

Interessantes, trauriges Buch

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Ich habe mir dieses Buch gekauft, nachdem ich den Film "Control" gesehen hatte.
Ich kannte vorher weder Joy Division, noch Ian Curtis. Ich fand es einfach interessant,
daß er Epileptiker war und sich "einfach so" (trotz Karriere, Familie, Haus und Hof)
umgebracht hat. Ich meine, ihm standen alle Türen offen?! (Trotz vielleicht unglücklicher Ehe.)
Ich finde schon, daß man ihn durch dieses Buch etwas näher kennenlernt (und auch seine Frau).
Allerdings ist das Buch recht umgangssprachlich geschrieben und ich hatte öfter Probleme,
Aussagen, Meinungen und Bewertungen richtig zu verstehen, obwohl mein Englisch (bilde ich mir
jedenfalls ein) soo schlecht nicht ist.
Ich fand das Buch trotzdem lesenswert.

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Brenna Norwood

Beautifully written

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As a huge joy division fan I liked how she writes about their life together as honestly as she did. Although there was clearly a bias especially with regards to his extramarital relationship, but that is to be expected. She did a fabulous job of making a character as big as Ian Curtis into a person rather than an icon. This is by far the best band biography I've ever read and have recommended it to anyone who loved joy division!

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More than I expected

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I didn't expect that this book would be this interesting. A lot of insight into the 'other side' of Ian Curtis (sometime unpleasant). I am not a fan of Ian as such (more of a New Order fan), so I was interested in learning more about Deborah and her view of the events. Easy reading, I read the book in only two days.

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Wer hätte besser schreiben können als seine Witwe? Deborah Curtis war wohl am nächsten dran an diesem zerrissenen Menschen, der durch seine Bühnen-Performance und seine Lieder unglaublich beeindruckte, dem aber irgendwie alles zu viel wurde. Man beginnt ein Bisschen zu verstehen, wer dieser Ian Curtis abseits der Bühne war und man beginnt auch mitzuleiden mit Frau und Kind. Schwerer Stoff also, schonungslos geschrieben.

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Sehr interessant, sehr gut auf dem Kindle zu lesen

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Dank Kindle geht es sehr viel schneller englische richtig Bücher zu lesen. Früher musste man ggf. ein Wörterbuch zur Hand nehmen, was man oft nicht getan hat.

Das Buch bestätigt und erweitert den Film "Control". Natürlich, von seiner Frau geschrieben, gibt es mind. noch eine Darstellungsmöglichkeit mehr, die seiner Freundin. Zudem wird das Leben mit einer bipolaren Persönlichkeit mit klaren Selbstmordabsichten sehr eindrucksvoll und immernoch hilflos beschrieben.

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Ian Curtis. Musiklegende. Ehemann. Affaire. Vater.
Das Buch "Touching from a Distance" ,von Ians Witwe Deborah verfasst, erlaubt einen guten Einblick in das traurige Leben des Joy Division Frontmanns Ian Kevin Curtis. Die Vorlage zum Film "Control" verschafft viele Einblicke und persönliche Eindrücke seiner Bandkollegen, Kontakte, Familie und Freunde.
Legenden sterben jung, doch Ian Curtis bleibt unsterblich. Wunderbares Buch, manche Träne blieb nicht in einem Auge.

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I feel the need to strongly recommend this book - and not just to fans of Joy Division/New Order. The book isn't just about Ian, but about the person I fleetingly knew as Debbie Curtis - you see I have a very strange link with them. At the end-May 1980 I turned 18yrs and left school; I got a job at Macclesfield County Court. On the 18th May 1980, Ian sadly committed suicide; my new job was Debbie's previous job. Bizarrely, as Debbie explains in the book, she had also worked at Sunley Tower, Manchester for the Dept of the Environment and when I left the Court Service that was my next job!

When I started work at the Courts in 1980 there was this major cloud of worry - all the Court staff who knew Debbie were so unbelievably worried about her. I don't know if she ever realised how intensely they cared about her. They were both only 23yrs old when Ian died, and Debbie had Natalie as a little 1yr old toddler. She used to come in to the Court *so* many times with Natalie in the buggy (somewhere I've got photos of races on office chairs at a Christmas party - innocent days!), and even then she struck me as an amazing young woman - she was always so cheerful and literally lit up the place. I was in awe how she was coping. I laughed in the book because she talks about the Chief Clerk and calls him 'Mr Pape' even at the time of writing the book as a mature woman - he was a wonderful old stick, bless him, and no-one called him by his first name; only my future husband ever got to call him 'Mike', when he started as the new Chief Clerk on Mr Pape's retirement! But even Mr Pape's face lit up when Debbie visited. She was like the daughter he never had.

It was literally weeks since her husband had died when I first met her and she'd been dealing with horrors before that event I knew nothing about. She documents in the book the struggles with Ian's epilepsy/depression and a medical culture that had no proper idea how to deal with either. On top of that was having a small toddler, no money, and the pressures of 'another woman' already beginning from the music business culture. I've read the comments about Annik with high amusement. When you walk into - or become caught up in - someone else's marriage there are only two options: (1) you bow out, even at hurt to yourself, when you realise a family life is being destroyed, or (2) if you really believe you are made for each other, you pick up the baton and stand in the shoes of 'The Other Woman' and accept/own the devastation you/the other party are about to cause - because that is what you both are doing. Annik knew Ian was married. What isn't an option is to continue down the route of Option 2, but try to convince everyone 'nothing is going on' and actually you 'are the wronged person because the wife is an emotional crazy, mad, person with an overactive imagination'. Thus blaming her for the devastation while portraying yourself in Doe-like innocence. The black and white photos of Ian/Annik, their own words, and the 'Yoko Ono' reference from the band make Annik's innocence claims unreal. To not have the courage to be what you are and so to walk through the pain caused, but try instead to blame 'an hysterical wife with an overactive imagination' is the cruelest, most vilest, and most cowardly option anyone can take. I dread to think what Debbie must have been going through at that time, but as a watcher-from-the-wings I saw the intense worry for her wellbeing on her friends at Macclesfield Court where she would likely have discussed the detail/been advised on the filing of the Divorce proceedings as well as later working through the emotional devastation of Ian's death.

As an 18yr old I admired Debbie *hugely* from afar, even with those events she was dealing with she just ploughed on in life with numb positivity. She was an incredibly strong young person. Natalie seems to have grown up into an amazing young woman, and in the words of this book I can still hear the Debbie who so impressed me at the Courts. It's very well written. This book isn't really about Joy Division, it's about Ian Curtis - part of that story is about how Joy Division came about; but if you want to understand Ian Curtis the real person and not the cardboard-cut-out on a pedestal it's an amazing book. But it's also about 'Mrs Curtis' - and if you want to read the book from the perspective of a young woman coping with the critical illness of her husband and what happens when the jaws of the music industry start to close around you/your family you won't be disappointed. From that perspective this is an incredibly brave and jaw-dropping book.

Although if she remembers me at all it would only be as 'that new girl' at the Courts, I still vibrantly remember her as being an incredible young lady ... she seems to have grown into an amazing woman. And Natalie is still her amazing daughter even though she wouldn't fit in the buggy any more! This is a brilliant book I can highly recommend.

And if Debbie or Natalie ever read this review I wish you *all the love in the world* and hope you know how much those people cared about you back then (*the Macc CC stories went on, with Les/John et al at our wedding years later when I married the new Chief Clerk! Doh, you'd need wine for that story!). The Girls have Done-Good, bless you both :o) ... xxx

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This is an excellent book providing a deep insight into the lives of Ian & Deb Curtis.

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I was a year younger than Ian Curtis and was very much in-tune with the state of music at the time of Joy Division. They made a significant contribution to the genre which is still having an impact today. I adore their music to this day.

Regarding this book, Deb Curtis did a brilliant job in documenting her relationship with Ian and in addressing all the issues faced by Ian, herself and the band. I also think Deb is a wonderful writer and knowing the weight of her words on those fans of Ian and Joy Division she seems to have provided a very balanced judgment. Perhaps the many years that went by prior to writing this book gave Deb a better perspective. Yes, she experienced much pain & sorrow in the relationship but I can also clearly tell from reading this book she has & will always love Ian.

The film Control was greatly influenced from Deb's book. I think the persona of Ian's character in the film was fairly accurate based on Deb's book. The book really didn't detract or change my feelings and appreciation for Ian's work. My impression from Deb's book was that Ian never really dealt with his personal, medical & mental health issues. I got the impression (perhaps over-analyzing Ian) that Ian was not socially well developed and was so distracted from dealing with himself due to the drugs at an early age and the music business at an older age that he never had a chance to learn to deal with all his issues. When one faces so many overwhelming problems at one time and has never really understood how to deal with them, ending one's life can seem like an option (not a recommended one!)

Deb's writing was extremely insightful. I really learned a lot. It must have been a fairly cathartic experience for Deb, but she seemed very well prepared for writing it.

I highly recommend this book.

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It’s 40 years since Ian Curtis decided that life was no longer important to him. Reading this book highlights the problems that males have in sharing their emotions. I’ve seen so many comments about ‘if only we’d seen or been aware’. The book doesn’t really shed light on his younger life and upbringing to any great depth, so it’s difficult to pinpoint what may have caused his insecurities, because Ian definitely seems to be someone who was very insecure. It also shows the problems when two young inexperienced people decide that married life is what was best for them. It’s quite clear that Curtis was your typical alpha male, controlling and mentally abusing his doting wife.

It would seem that every single band member and part of the clique that surrounded Joy Division, had no idea of the torture that Ian was going through within his mind. I find that astonishing. They must have all been obsessed with their own personal agendas and the goal that was driving them on. Not one of them could see the depression that Curtis was going through? Sure, it says that he ‘kept it all in’, as men are want to do. He probably thought that sharing his feelings was a sign of weakness and the fact that he was telling his bandmates that his wife was the cause of his grief, would have generated a bit of ‘time out’ to help him try and sort things out if they were ‘real friends’, which they obviously weren’t. Basically, just work colleagues with similar musical tastes but no real interest in each other.

Only Ian knows why he decided to call time on his life. You can speculate about whether that was his intension all along or whether it was the maelstrom that his life had become that gave him no option. It seemed he’d backed himself into a corner and his insecurities stopped him from making the right decisions. It was probably much easier to end it all.

There are parallels with Cynthia Lennon’s book about life with John and how he similarly manipulated his doting wife. Deborah didn’t deserve to be treated like Ian had started to treat her. They had agreed to have a child, or maybe Ian decided to give Deborah what she wanted. Any father knows that when your child is born, that’s when your life changes. It seems like he resisted that change, which is a shame because it could have actually helped him become stronger. At least Natalie was too young to understand anything.

I’m sure Ian’s parents must have been devastated that their young son felt the way he did and the finality that he sought. I’m sure that Deborah felt some guilt that people may think that she had done nothing to help him. Whilst reading the book, there were times when I felt like jumping in and confronting him and screaming at him...’for goodness sake Ian!...’. Two young people who wouldn’t share their feelings/problems with neither each other or anyone else. A recipe for disappointment and sadness.

I’m grateful that Ian wrote some poignant lyrics and sang his songs so memorably during Joy Division’s short tenure in the Post Punk era. Would there have been another album after ‘Closer’? Who knows, perhaps it’s best that there wasn’t.

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Fantastic Book About a Flawed Genius

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It took me a while to realise just how important Joy Division were and equally, how influential Ian Curtis was. This book explains that and more. There was no doubt Ian Curtis had a touch of genius about him when he wrote. This book explores that and the man behind those words. He was no saint, and this book does not pretend he was and it is all the better for it.

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Decent, short read

Rezension aus Kanada am 18. Oktober 2023

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Liked it. It doesn’t have a ton of insights into Ian, more like a random collection of memories. It’s padded out with lyrics etc., I presume to give it more length. Nothing earth shattering is revealed, but if you’re a fan it adds a few pieces to the big picture.

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