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Via Pfork (via BBC):
Sad news of a slightly different sort coming out of the Joy Division fold: The BBC reports that the gravestone marking the grave of Ian Curtis, the late frontman for the legendary mope-rockers, has been stolen.According to the BBC, at some point between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, thieves removed the stone from its perch at the Macclesfield Cemetery in Curtis' hometown of Macclesfield, England. Authorities currently have no leads as to the whereabouts of the stone, which bears the inscriptions "Ian Curtis 18 - 5 - 80" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart".
According to the BBC, at some point between Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning, thieves removed the stone from its perch at the Macclesfield Cemetery in Curtis' hometown of Macclesfield, England. Authorities currently have no leads as to the whereabouts of the stone, which bears the inscriptions "Ian Curtis 18 - 5 - 80" and "Love Will Tear Us Apart".
What say you, ILM?
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:13 (seventeen years ago)
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― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:16 (seventeen years ago)
Touché.
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:18 (seventeen years ago)
RIP
― wilter, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:20 (seventeen years ago)
Ha ha. Truce? Good.
― Jeff Treppel, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:21 (seventeen years ago)
I am surprised it took this long to happen.
― Display Name, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:30 (seventeen years ago)
someone check the studio where editors are recording
― electricsound, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:31 (seventeen years ago)
what a very grave mistake some fan has just made.
― matinee, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:33 (seventeen years ago)
it must not have weighed tomb much from the look of it.
― strgn, Thursday, 3 July 2008 01:42 (seventeen years ago)
i LOL'ed
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 02:07 (seventeen years ago)
it's just a carved rock
― res, Thursday, 3 July 2008 02:32 (seventeen years ago)
The culprits left a few cryptic clues.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 3 July 2008 02:37 (seventeen years ago)
the family is coffin up a lot of money for its retomb. they're hoping to decaying body it back sometime in the near embalmed necrophiliac.
― res, Thursday, 3 July 2008 02:43 (seventeen years ago)
a friend writes:
somewhere in heaven, tony wilson just assigned the theft of ian curtis' gravestone a FAC number
― J0hn D., Thursday, 3 July 2008 02:51 (seventeen years ago)
fucking win, J0hn
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 03:01 (seventeen years ago)
BHAHAHA yeah, John takes this one. *whoops - pun*
― Bimble, Thursday, 3 July 2008 03:06 (seventeen years ago)
I hope the thieves use it to smash Jim Morrison's tombstone.
― f. hazel, Thursday, 3 July 2008 07:02 (seventeen years ago)
Damnit, I was just going to say that! (the FAC number)
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 July 2008 07:04 (seventeen years ago)
In keeping with the rest of Manchester's musical legacy, they're going to use the space for luxury flats.
― Kim Tortoise, Thursday, 3 July 2008 11:02 (seventeen years ago)
Or maybe it's Mick Hucknall planning ahead cos he needs the extra space.
They'll have to go to the stonemasons with a new order.
― NickB, Thursday, 3 July 2008 11:05 (seventeen years ago)
Followed by a new ceremony at a later date.
― paulhw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:51 (seventeen years ago)
Do people still visit morrison's grave?
― Display Name, Thursday, 3 July 2008 15:29 (seventeen years ago)
-- NickB, Thursday, 3 July 2008 11:05 (6 hours ago) Link
-- paulhw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 14:51 (2 hours ago) Link
ROFL. Oh my god, you guys are killing me. Please stop.
― Bimble, Thursday, 3 July 2008 17:27 (seventeen years ago)
7 years back, on a quick visit to Paris, I went to Pere Lachaise with my then girlfriend to see Piaf's and Wilde's graves. A friend in the States desperately wanted me to visit Morrison's grave for her so I wandered about looking for it and found a huge crowd of people all being worshipful towards it.
Needless to say my favorite person there was the security guy the cemetery had hired, who looked like he was in his late fifties, had a glum sneer on his face and was smoking cigarettes while giving off the unmistakable impression everyone there besides him was an idiot. Probably right at that.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 July 2008 17:31 (seventeen years ago)
Oh but Bimble, we can't help but marvel at these thieves' technique. These thieves like us.
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 17:42 (seventeen years ago)
Despite the technique, it was still a pretty low-life thing to do.
― jonathan - stl, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:16 (seventeen years ago)
What makes me squirm, however, is whatever unknown pleasures this thief may be getting from his actions. Too bad he lacks control.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:19 (seventeen years ago)
Maybe they're getting closer to recovering the gravestone, anyway.
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:31 (seventeen years ago)
OH WHO AM I KIDDING THEY'LL NEVER FIND IT, THIS IS ALL A BUNCH OF POWER CORRUPTION AND LIES, AAAAUUURGHRHGHHHHHHHH!!!!!
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 18:32 (seventeen years ago)
TOR it was stolen is that (with mainstreaming of JD "legend" etc.) it must now have a monetary value.
There is now a black market for IC headstones.
― PhilK, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:02 (seventeen years ago)
I have one for Waiting For The Sirens' Call, but it's not worth it.
― jonathan - stl, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:05 (seventeen years ago)
Would've been a winner..!
― paulhw, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:14 (seventeen years ago)
jonathan - let's hear it!
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 19:23 (seventeen years ago)
The eternal question is: how long it will take for them to get closer to identifying the perps? I think they were probably hoping it would take twenty four hours; I suspect it will be decades.
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 3 July 2008 21:25 (seventeen years ago)
Where will it end? WHERE WILL IT END?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 July 2008 21:32 (seventeen years ago)
Breaking news! The thief located in a colony of artists, ones that have lived in isolation in the wilderness since 1980. Initially, the inspector that visited the colony nearly missed the hidden stone because of the disorder in the room. The only mistake the thief made: a transmission sent to one of the other colony members was intercepted.
Because this is the thief's first offence, he is a likely candidate for a suspended sentence.
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 3 July 2008 21:41 (seventeen years ago)
Quite a novelty.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 3 July 2008 21:42 (seventeen years ago)
Perhaps they better call in interpol, at least before the tabloid editors get ahold of the story.
(I'm sorry. Really, really sorry for that one.)
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 3 July 2008 22:22 (seventeen years ago)
Love will tear us apart blue monday substance.
― musically, Thursday, 3 July 2008 22:30 (seventeen years ago)
Oh my god you totally win this round.
― stephen, Thursday, 3 July 2008 23:07 (seventeen years ago)
Is this the best thread all year or what?
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Friday, 4 July 2008 02:21 (seventeen years ago)
I'm kinda thinking Ned is the latest one to win, though with the emphatic "Where Will It End?" at the appropriate time.
Props to Sean for the "Suspended Sentence" wording though. John Cooper Clarke would be proud.
― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than You, Friday, 4 July 2008 02:27 (seventeen years ago)