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Unknown Pleasures
''Unknown Pleasures'' is the début album by the English post-punk band Joy Division. It followed an abandoned session for RCA Records, and was eventually recorded and mixed over three weekends at Strawberry Studios, Stockport in April 1979 with producer Martin Hannett. The album was released on 15th June 1979 on Tony Wilson's Factory Records.
Factory did not release any singles from ''Unknown Pleasures'', and although the success of "Transmission" increased its sales, the album did not chart. However, it has gone on to receive sustained critical acclaim as a pioneering post-punk record.
== Background ==
Joy Division formed in Salford, Greater Manchester in 1976 during the first wave of punk rock. Bernard Sumner and Peter Hook had separately attended a Sex Pistols show at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall on 4th June 1976 and both embraced that group's simplicity, speed and aggression.〔Ott, 6〕 Forming a band with their friend Terry Mason on drums, Sumner on guitar and Hook on bass, they advertised for a vocalist. Ian Curtis, who Sumner and Hook already knew, applied and, without having to audition, was taken on.〔Savage, Jon. "Joy Division: Someone Take These Dreams Away". ''Mojo''. July 1994.〕 After a number of changes of drummer, Stephen Morris joined the band—at that time called Warsaw—in August 1977. To avoid confusion with the London punk band Warsaw Pakt, they renamed themselves Joy Division in late 1977.〔Reynolds, 111〕
After signing with RCA Records in early 1978, Joy Division recorded some demos; however, they were unhappy with the way their music was mixed and asked to be released from their contract.〔Ott, 42〕〔Gimarc, 135〕 The band's first release was the self-produced extended play (EP), ''An Ideal for Living'', which was released in June 1978. They made their television debut on Tony Wilson's local news show ''Granada Reports'' in September 1978.〔Curtis, 202〕 According to Hook, the band received a £70,000 offer from Genetic Records in London.〔"30 Years of Joy 1979–2009". ''NME''. London: IPC, 20 June 2009. 24–27〕 However, the band's manager, Rob Gretton, approached Wilson about releasing an album on his Factory Records label.〔 Wilson explained that Gretton had calculated that given Factory's 50/50 split of profits, the group could make as much money with the indie label as it could by signing to a major. Wilson added that one of Gretton's main reasons for approaching Factory was so "he wouldn't have to get on a train to London every week and 'talk to cunts'. No one could use the word 'cockney' with as much contempt as Rob".〔 Gretton estimated that the album would cost £8,000 to produce; however Wilson said in 2006 that the up-front cost ended at £18,000.〔
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