What mystery those clues are supposed to solve, exactly, is debatable. What little he left behind is still being pillaged for clues. The manner in which Curtis chose to die would aid in elevating him to the status of legendary cult figure. Just as Curtis’ surviving bandmates were forging ahead as New Order, Joy Division’s second album, Closer, introduced many new fans to Ian’s lyrical voice and now-infamous baritone. In the months following Curtis’ depression-and-epilepsy-fueled suicide in May of 1980, Joy Division would be thrust into the spotlight throughout England and beyond, via their best-known song, “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” It stayed on the charts for two months, peaking at No. A manuscript with crossings-out and corrections conjures an image of him in the blue room, pacing and smoking, barely noticing when I handed a cup of coffee into the room.” “All he was unable to express on a personal level was poured into his writing, and so his lyrics tell much more than a conversation with him ever could. “When Ian found his direction, the notebooks, the scraps of paper, and the plastic carrier bag became an extension of his body,” his widow, Deborah Curtis, writes in the introduction to So This Is Permanence, which she co-edited. “If he didn’t like something, he would eventually make his displeasure shown. In a lot of ways, the Joy Division leader’s handwriting seems to reflect his personality: “Ian was a very definite person,” says Jon Savage, the co-editor of So This Is Permanence, a collection of Curtis’ notebooks released last month by Chronicle Books. When he wanted to change a word in his lyrics or notes, he’d scratch out his former word choice utterly completely - as if he wanted to erase it from existence.
Ian Curtis wrote in all caps, often with a Sharpie.
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