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07-02-2008, 01:44 PM
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| |  Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis' gravestone stolen
Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis' gravestone stolen | News | NME.COM Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis' gravestone stolen  Singer's memorial swiped from cemetery Ian Curtis' gravestone has been stolen.
The memorial to the Joy Division frontman was taken from Macclesfield's cemetery.
The headstone is visited by thousands of fans every year, paying their respects to the singer who committed suicide in 1980.
Police are appealing for witnesses to the stone's theft as there are no CCTV cameras in the area.
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07-02-2008, 01:47 PM
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| | BBC NEWS | UK | England | Manchester | Ian Curtis memorial stone stolen Ian Curtis memorial stone stolen 
Ian Curtis's fame lives on years after his death The gravestone of former Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis has been stolen from a Cheshire cemetery.
Curtis was 23 when he hanged himself in the kitchen of his Macclesfield home in May 1980, shortly before the band were due to go on tour in the US.
Cheshire Police said his memorial stone was taken from where he is buried in Macclesfield Cemetery.
Officers are appealing for anyone with information on its whereabouts to contact them.
Detectives said the stone, which has the inscription "Ian Curtis 18 - 5 - 80" and the words "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was taken sometime between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning.
A police spokesman said: "There is no CCTV in the area and there are no apparent leads as to who is responsible for the theft.
"This is a very unusual theft and I am confident that someone locally will have knowledge about who is responsible or where the memorial stone is at present."
Although the band reformed into New Order after Curtis's death in 1980, there has been an upsurge of interest in its work. An acclaimed biopic about Curtis, called Control, was released in 2007 and a film documentary, called simply Joy Division, was released earlier this year.
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07-02-2008, 02:17 PM
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| | Is someone doing this to irk krers?  |
07-02-2008, 02:27 PM
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What a fucking stupid thing to do.
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07-02-2008, 02:52 PM
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| | wtf. 
Why? |
07-02-2008, 02:54 PM
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| | | not surprised considering all the jobless, morbid fucks that band attracts. |
07-02-2008, 03:01 PM
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| | that's disgusting |
07-02-2008, 03:45 PM
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booooooo.
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07-02-2008, 03:48 PM
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| | That is fucking lame The person could have taken a picture, it's no different from any engraved stone... |
07-02-2008, 05:34 PM
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| | how fucking rude, he's not even there, so its not really a gravestone, just a memorial. that would be like stealing one of those memorial stones they have at that hard rock park. whats the point? i just love the respect some people have. |
07-02-2008, 05:44 PM
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| | | I suppose you've got to applaud their endeavour. Robbing a gravestone must be bloody hard work, even if there's two or three of you at it.
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07-02-2008, 05:46 PM
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| | | wasn't his gravestone a part of the curb along the roadway? |
07-02-2008, 06:09 PM
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| | | That's fucking appalling and not just because it's ian Curtis. |
07-02-2008, 09:02 PM
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| | | Tasteless and tacky. I hope the angry ghost of Ian comes and kicks this guy's ass. |
07-02-2008, 09:58 PM
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| | | well lets just not give a shit.
chances are it was done out of love and not malice.
or what the disfunctionals who relate to joy division consider to be love anyway.
maybe a needy living person is taking comfort in some dead fucks gravestone. fine.
and whats this i just read in this thread....he's not even buried there?
we the living.
if it was pissed on, spraypainted, destroyed, somethign senseless like that i could sort of be pissed.
but i believe it was a fucked up fan who stole it.
it wasn't a thumbing of nose gesture so i say the poor cocksucker deserves a little compassion.
if its the sell the fucking thing on ebay or somethign, alright fine. lame.
but if someone is sleeping with the thing and lovingly beating off all over it, then htats okay. |
07-03-2008, 08:59 PM
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by fuck me fred  disfunctionals who relate to joy division | Your generalizations are kind of amusing... sometimes.
It happened just as the Control dvd was released...weird.
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07-03-2008, 11:37 PM
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| | | The thing that really gets me is that it's not a spectacular gravestone. If you've seen it in Torn Apart, you've basically seen it.
It's not as if they had a likeness of Ian hugging Martin Hannett and Rob Gretton engraved Albrecht Dürer-style into his gravestone...then I could see the logic of taking it, disgustingly enough. |
07-04-2008, 06:39 PM
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| | | Hopefully they're just taking it for safe-keeping?
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07-04-2008, 06:52 PM
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