This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
And Finally
Peter Hook admits Joy Division fakery
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 5 October 2009
Peter Hook has revealed that he is the scourge of record collectors, after it transpired that he had faked the signatures of his Joy Division bandmates, including that of frontman Ian Curtis after his death.
Hook told Xfm: “Bernard [Sumner]’s signature is much more valuable than mine, because he never signed anything! And I did have a reputation for doing Ian Curtis’s autograph for a long time. There’s some guy in the Northern Quarter who had ‘An Ideal For Living’ up and it was signed by all four members of the band and dated. I went in and said, have you not noticed that the date is after Ian died? He went, ‘Oh no!’ It was me, I did them as a joke! In very poor taste. It was up there for £200, so my name is now mud among collectors”.
