Former Joy Division bassist Peter Hook has admitted to basically running a forgery business involving the purported autograph of the band’s late frontman Ian Curtis, although he blames his scheme working on fans who didn’t fact-check Curtis’ date of death: “I did have a reputation for doing Ian Curtis’ autograph for a long time… There’s some guy who had [the Joy Division EP] An Ideal For Living 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?’ It was me, I did them as a joke!” If you’re a record collector who has an “autographed” copy of a Joy Division album (and you’ve just had a mini-anxiety attack), now would be a good time to compare the signature above, which was apparently obtained in 1978, with your personal copy. Sorry to burst any record-collecting bubbles! [Clash Music via The Daily Swarm / Allegedly real autograph of Ian Curtis via Joy Division History]
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Given that it’s a member of the band, I do think it’s kind of funny. Of course, I don’t really get signature collecting anyway.
if he dated the signature each time he did the forgery, I feel its ok as the buyer should of been more astute, and appreciated the humor. But if he was actually flogging merchandise as actually signed by Ian while he was alive, thats pretty sleazy, but still funny.
So this autographed copy of the “Control” DVD probably is fake, then?
I would love to have one of these, to be honest. Hooky’s my favorite member anyway!