Which seminal post-punk group released their enduring classic "Love Will Tear Us Apart" in June of 1980, one month after their lead singer's suicide?

Joy Division's career was short, but the band's influence is staggering. While rooted in the raw aggressiveness of 1970s British punk, the band ultimately developed a sound that was a decided departure from that genre. With an eerily slow tempo and Ian Curtis's brooding, emotive baritone combined with a chilly sprinkling of synthesizers, Joy Division helped define the New Wave sound, influencing contemporaries like the Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Depeche Mode, and later, Nine Inch Nails, Interpol, and countless others. The angst-ridden melancholy of Curtis's vocals also pointed ahead to the plaintive ennui of alternative rock later in the '80s.

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