Home / Music / Joy Division recorded Closer over twelve days in March 1980Music linernotes album music joy-divisionJoy Division recorded Closer over twelve days in March 1980The sessions took place in London with producer Martin Hannett. Search Amazon As an Amazon Associate, Work Notes may earn.Related NotesFrank Sinatra records shaped Ian Curtis's vocals on CloserMartin Hannett kept mixing Love Will Tear Us Apart during the Closer sessionsJoy Division's Closer was released July 18, 1980, two months after Ian Curtis's deathThe Dukes of Stratosphear's 25 O'Clock outsold XTC's The Big Express — the side project beat the main actTango in the Night featured all five classic Fleetwood Mac membersExploreKatelyn Tarver's Quitter came out in early 2024Random Access Memories was Daft Punk's final albumThe Stooges' Raw Power came out in February 1973R.E.M.'s Reckoning came out in April 1984Fritz Reiner recorded Also sprach Zarathustra twicePrevious Joy Division's Closer was released July 18, 1980, two months after Ian Curtis's deathNext John McGeoch brought an unconventional guitar style to Juju