What they witnessed of Joy Division's recording session influenced and inspired them heavily. Samuel from Singapore, SingaporeDuring the recording of this song, a young Irish band arrived in the studio to discuss with producer Martin Hannett the recording of their single.its weird, when curtis was still alive, most of joy's songs were cynical and gloomy, but when curtis died and new order formed, alot of their songs were really happy and stuff. Brigette from Melbourne, Australiai love joy division.Joy Division was four people on pedestals, and we didn't communicate with each other about what the songs are about.'

But Ian had two faces – the public face for the band and the private troubles he had at home and the way they came out through his lyrics. His life had changed enormously, and he had to make a choice. And by the time of that song, he'd come to a fork in the road, relationship-wise. Lead guitarist Bernard Sumner added regarding Curtis: 'He'd got married very, very young. That makes it a bit difficult to listen to now.'' I just said 'These are great lyrics, Ian'. I honestly didn't realise that he was writing about himself. In retrospect, when you listen to it in light of what happened, it seems bloody obvious.

It was a great period for the band, but Ian's personal life – that was all going badly. The role of Deborah was played by Samantha Morton.Speaking to NME Jabout his memories of the track, drummer Stephen Morris said: 'I just thought 'Yeah, this is a good song', someone might like it. The book has been used as a reference for the Anton Corbijn's film Control (2007), for which Deborah Curtis was a co-producer. The Unseen Lyrics section contains songs that either were not recorded or finished.

The appendix contains four sections: Discography, Lyrics, Unseen Lyrics, and Gig List. The title is a reference to a line in one of Joy Division's most popular songs, ' Transmission'. The foreword was written by the music journalist Jon Savage. In the book, Deborah Curtis speaks of Ian's infidelity, their troubled marriage, Ian's volatile and sometimes troubled personality, and his health problems (which included epileptic seizures and depression) that likely led to his suicide in 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first United States tour. It details her life and marriage with Ian Curtis, lead singer of the 1970s British post-punk band Joy Division. Touching from a Distance is a biography written by Deborah Curtis.

Ian curtis touching from a distance