Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division

"Peter “Hooky” Hook was a self-described working-class thief who taught himself to play the bass. His Manchester, England, band, Stiff Kittens, sprouted into not one, but two of the most important bands of the post-punk era. You don’t have to be a hardcore fan of Joy Division or New Order to appreciate Hook’s wry evocation of Britain’s 1970s punk scene and his street-level remembrance of the tragedy and ecstasy — if the drug double entendre can be forgiven — that went into building the foundation for the next few decades’ alternative rock scene."