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YOU WONT BELIEVE: New order - What They Never Told You

"I will never play with them again. I’d rather die than play with them." Don't hold your breath for a New Order reunion performance at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony

Peter Hook makes his feelings on a New Order reunion crystal clear

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“Walk on. Press a button. Leave the gear to play a song all on its own. While we piss off back to the booze in the dressing room and chortle to ourselves”: The mistakes and judicious choices that made New Order’s Blue Monday

Still the biggest-selling 12-inch of all time

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“We thought it would be a taster single to set the scene, but when it came out, it went crazy": The almost unbelievable story of how EMF went to No 1 in the US with their debut single, which came with a huge guitar riff and a helping hand from Rick Rubin

“The guitar riff goes from blues mode to flamenco mode, like the two conflicting sides of my life”

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“I haven’t spoken to Bernard for… I didn’t even speak to him. He spoke at me. That’ll be 15 years": Peter Hook says he won’t perform or stand with New Order at their RNR Hall Of Fame – unless he receives an apology

Liam and Noel Gallagher could be intermediaries, he says

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Peter Hook has no plans for New Order reunion but Oasis could hold the key

Peter Hook doesn't plan to reunite with his former New Order bandmate at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony later this year.

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‘I became a New Order groupie’: Tim Burgess’s honest playlist

The Charlatans frontman plays Kate Bush deep cuts in his car and loves a bit of Abba, but which scary industrial noiseniks soundtrack his sexy time?

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Peter Hook says Joy Division’s Rock Hall honour is ‘for Ian Curtis’

Peter Hook has dedicated Joy Division’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction to late frontman Ian Curtis as he confirms he will attend the ceremony.

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Oasis and Phil Collins lead British Rock and Roll Hall of Fame honours

Iron Maiden, Sade, Billy Idol, Joy Division and New Order are the other British acts being honoured this year

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Oasis lead record number of British acts entering Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

The 2026 honourees were announced by Ryan Seacrest during an episode of American Idol on Tuesday

Evening Standard

Wu-Tang Clan and Queen Latifah lead Rock and Roll Hall of Fame US inductees

Phil Collins, Iron Maiden, Billy Idol, Queen Latifah, Oasis, Sade and Joy Division/New Order are set to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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Peter Hook marking Sex Pistols anniversary milestone with special show

Peter Hook will mark the 50th anniversary of the Sex Pistols’ legendary Manchester gig - which inspired him to pick up the bass - with a one-off show next year.

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‘Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Ice Cube – I’m from that late-70s, early-80s era, so I like those kinds of raps’ John Barnes reveals the one rap song he wished he’d been asked to perform on

Former England winger Barnes rhymed himself into music folklore with his iconic rap on New Order’s ‘World in Motion’, but reveals he was never asked to perform on other records

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Florian Schneider’s Kraftwerk instruments put up for auction in US

Auction in US includes late musician’s vocoders, flute, sunglasses and bike he rode in Tour de France video

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“No one expected it to sell, but it did sell, didn’t it?”: the crazy story of an era-defining 80s classic that shifted millions but had such an expensive sleeve it sold at a loss

Someone forgot to run the numbers…

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“People really go ape*** for the dance tracks”: saluting New Order’s imperious 2015 album Music Complete as it turns 10

The synth-pop trailblazers’ most recent record came out a decade ago and increasingly looks like a fantastic and fitting farewell

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Peter Hook 'sad' there's no Joy Division archive

Peter Hook has admitted he feels "sad" there isn't a secret archive of lost Joy Division songs - admitting the band was so strapped for cash they recorded everything on one cassette and then recorded over it every time they did came up with something new.

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Peter Hook breaks silence over why he believes Joy Division and New Order are still waiting for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recognition

In a frank interview, bassist Peter Hook has spoken out about why he believes Joy Division and New Order are still waiting for recognition from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Maxine Peake: ‘I have a healthy balance of inferiority complex and slightly prickly ego’

The actor on working with Mike Leigh, death by disco ball and drinking on the job

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From Madonna to New Order and Oasis, one man’s odyssey to make an ‘atlas of album cover maps’

Damien Saunder set out to survey the cartographic influence on album sleeve design. Four years and 400-plus records later, he’s created the coffee table book music fans and map lovers never knew they needed

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10 brilliant songs that prove Johnny Marr is one of the most influential guitarists of his generation

It's true, just ask Radiohead, Blur, Fontaines D.C., Red Hot Chili Peppers and more...

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“Some people act like that line is nonsense, and I just don't understand that”: How the Killers’ misunderstood classic drew on a struggle with faith - and an MTV presenter’s time with Iraq war veterans

The Killers’ most euphoric song was fuelled by spiritual uncertainty, a reach for U2-level stature and a late night bar chat with an MTV presenter

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“I don’t think they’re New Order. They don’t sound anything like them”: Peter Hook takes aim at his estranged bandmates

He says he gets DMs from fans complaining about the current band

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Peter Hook inundated with DMs from fans complaining about New Order's gigs

Peter Hook says his old band New Order doesn't "sound anything like" them and fans have been telling him they are disappointed with their shows.

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“We were able to fire up a bass sound that was indistinguishable from the flavour of New Order’s Blue Monday in seconds”: EastWest Sounds Iconic review

A haul of vintage synths have been mined for all their gold in EastWest’s most pop-angled pack to date

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“It did sound like the nightmare Tony McPhee was trying to describe. Prog usually has softness and intricacy, but this wasn’t a record you disappeared into”: New Order’s Peter Hook hails Groundhogs’ Split

Long before he started playing bass, but after discovering Wishbone Ash and Curved Air, he was introduced to the pioneering power trio’s 1971 album by a future bandmate

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