Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart” 1980/2020. Factory Records. Today, January 4th, is Joy Division co-founder, guitarist and keyboardist Bernard Sumner’s birthday (b. 1956). This 12″ single is a remastered reissue for “Love Will Tear Us Apart”‘s 40th anniversary. The non-album single was released a month after Ian Curtis’ suicide; it hit #13 in the UK (#1 on the indie chart) and was named the best single of all-time by NME (in 2021 Rolling Stone placed “Love Will Tell Us Apart” at #41 in their greatest songs of all-time list). Side A has the single version, recorded in March 1980. Side B has the “Pennine version” of “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (recorded in January ’80) in which the keyboards are distinctively brighter and more prominent, along with the excellent “These Days.”