Peter Hook - THE HACIENDA, How not to run a club.
Peter Hook, as co-founder of Joy Division and New Order, has been shaping the course of popular music for thirty years. He provided the propulsive bass guitar melodies of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' and the bestselling 12-inch single ever, 'Blue Monday' among many other songs. As co-owner of Manchester's Hacienda club, Hook propelled the rise of acid house in the late 1980s, then suffered through its violent fall in the 1990s as gangs, drugs, greed and a hostile police force destroyed everything he and his friends had created. This is his memory of that era and 'it's far sadder, funnier, scarier and stranger' than anyone has imagined.As young and naive musicians, the members of New Order were thrilled when their record label Factory opened a club. Yet as their career escalated, they toured the world and had top ten hits, their royalties were being ploughed into the Hacienda and they were only being paid £20 per week. Peter Hook looked back at that exciting and hilarious time to write HACIENDA. All the main characters appear - Tony Wilson, Barney, Shaun Ryder - and Hook tells it like it was - a rollercoaster of success, money, confusion and true faith.
Channel: Entertainment
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: SimonSchusterUK
Length: 01:13
Rating: 4.25
Views: 4787
Tags: peter hook new order hacienda dance club manchester joy division tony wilson barney shaun ryder
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WizLaudan73(November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Just finished this book and think it was great....Couldn't put it down. Before that i read Freaky Dancing, Bez's biography..And that was the same, couldnt put it down.
technotrig89(November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Just finished reading this and i must say its a good insight into the hacienda. Doesnt really focus on factory or the bands its just stuff bout the hac. I never went to the hacienda because i was born in 1989 :( but this book just made me wanna go even more.... if only we had time machines!!!
Ucaptaf(November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Best night December 88' New Order in Concert At the G-Mex and the big H till dawn.
LoveOfCarnage(November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Well, Hacienda that!
leonardbirde(November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
BUY THIS BOOK! |
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