Today’s “Monday Muse” features the incomparable band New Order and them creating the classic tune, “Blue Monday.”
A nod to the iconic synth-pop pioneers. “New ordering.”
New Order’s “Blue Monday” is the best-selling 12-inch single of all time.
On Monday, May 19, 1980, the day after lan Curtis died. Band members Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris got together to dissolve Joy Division.
And on that very Monday the saddest day of their lives. New Order was born.
Three years later, on March 7, 1983, Blue Monday was unleashed. It defined the 1980s dance scene.
