1977
Manchester Evening News · Macclesfield
Became famous
Draft. The ad text below is a paraphrase from documented sources. A curator will replace it with the verbatim wording once we've checked an archive scan. The outcome and citation are otherwise accurate.
classified · as printed
Drummer wanted for band. Own kit essential. Influences: Iggy, Velvets, Bowie. Macclesfield / Manchester area.
What happened next
Stephen Morris answered. The band then called Warsaw soon renamed themselves Joy Division. Two albums and Ian Curtis's death in May 1980 later, the surviving three reformed as New Order and effectively invented the next decade of pop music.
Source
Manchester Evening News classifieds, late 1977. Per Peter Hook, 'Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division' and Deborah Curtis, 'Touching from a Distance'.
Further
cite this ad
“Drummer wanted for band. Own kit essential. Influences: Iggy, Velvets, Bowie. Macclesfield / Manchester area.” — Manchester Evening News, 1977. Musolist museum, /museum/british-weeklies/joy-division-drummer-1977.