The Guardian are reporting this morning that Joy Division and New Order manager, Rob Gretton, is to have his personal notes published by his widow.
Some of the intriguing details to be revealled are that New Order almost called themselves the Radical Jesuits before settling on New Order. In fact a whole host of different names were considered.
There’s also debate over what to call Joy Division’s debut album, Unknown Pleasures. Among the titles considered were Kinetic Outtake, The Aura, and Convulsive Therapy.
1 Top Class Manager is to be released on October 7 is a full-colour, 220-page paperback which compiles diary entries, letters, to-do lists, posters and excerpts from 20 notebooks kept by Rob Gretton between 1978 and 1980.
Look out for a special set of reviews of the recent New Order re-issues on TLOBF soon
