This year’s Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction class is one of the most inspired in recent memory and, to stress the obvious, an opportunity for some truly insane reunion performances for its marquee class. Sade haven’t been together since they last toured all the way back in 2011, for instance, and we might as well be deciphering every Gallagher-brother tweet for clues as to whether they’ll actually show up when the big day arrives.
Joy Division and New Order’s combined induction, though, is another story entirely, and a lot of it is redacted owing to lawsuits. Peter Hook, Ian Curtis, Stephen Morris, Bernard Sumner, and Gillian Gilbert (one of six women out of the 49 total inductees, a lousy percentage) make up their nomination; Hook has been in a separate faction from New Order since 2007 because of bitter legal battles about name trademarks and royalties. It’s a bizarre hate rhombus, if you will. “The only thing I’ve not enjoyed is people asking me about the others,” Hook, a co-founder of both bands, tells me. “I’m trying to forget them, to be honest.”
