The band was founded in 1976, soon after the Sex Pistols had made their first appearance in Manchester, Guitarist Bernard Albrecht and bassist Peter Hook had met while at the show and later formed a band called the Stiff Kittens, after placing an ad through a Manchester record store they added vocalist Ian Curtis and drummer Steve Brotherdale. Renamed Warsaw the band made its live debut the following May, supporting the Buzzcocks and Penetration at Manchester's Electric Circus, After the recording of several demos, Brotherdale quit the group in August 1977, prompting the hire of Stephen Morris, A name change to Joy Division in late 1977 necessitated by the punk band Warsaw Pakt was inspired by Karol Cetinsky's World War 2 novel The House of Dolls. Playing frequently in the north country during early 1978, the quartet gained the respect of several influential figures Rob Gretton a Manchester club DJ who became the group's manager Tony Wilson, a TV print journalist and owner of the Factory Records label and Derek Branwood, a record executive with RCA Northwest who recorded sessions in May 1978, for what was planned to be Joy Division's self titled debut LP. Though several songs bounded with punk energy, the rest of the album showed at an early age the band's later trademarks Curtis' themes of post industrial restlessness and emotional despair, Hook's droning bass lines and the jagged guitar riffs of Albrecht.
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