Founding member and guitarist of Joy Division and the lead singer of New Order,
Bernard Sumner has been famous over the years for his reticence. Until now...An
integral part of the Manchester music scene since the late 1970s, his is the def
initive version of the events that created two of the most influential bands of
all time. Chapter and Verse includes a vivid and illuminating account of Bernard
's Salford childhood, the early days of Joy Division, the band's enormous critic
al and popular success, and the subsequent tragic death of Ian Curtis.
