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The album, famously released in on 1979 by Factory Records, was recorded and mixed over three successive weekends at Stockport’s Strawberry Studios as the budding band prepared to launch their pioneering new sound to an unsuspecting music industry. Known for his eccentric personality and recording techniques Hannett led the way in the pioneering the album’s experimental construction. Their debut album Unknown Pleasures has established itself as one of the most influential albums of all time, but its sound is famed as much for its now-iconic producer Martin Hannett as it is for the band themselves.

The band never made an official music video for She’s Lost Control.Although it has been forty years since Ian Curtis’ death, Joy Division have remained one of the most notable bands in the history of popular music with a legacy that has gone on to inspire countless artists.

The song was released on June 15th, 1979 as the 6th track on Joy Division’s critically acclaimed debut studio album Unknown Pleasures.

The title of the 2007 biographical film Control, which is about Ian Curtis’ life, was derived from the song’s title.

She’s Lost Control was produced by Joy Division and Martin Zero (Martin Hannett).

The song’s lyrics were penned by Curtis.

The song was written by all four members of Joy Division (Bernard Sumner, Ian Curtis, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris).

One such precaution involved Curtis and his wife Deborah coming up with a nightly ritual that saw Curtis waiting to have an epileptic seizure in front of his wife (that is providing he didn’t have one during the day) before going to sleep. He therefore took a number of precautions to try to prevent that from happening to him. It is noteworthy that since the woman choked to death in her sleep during an epileptic fit, Curtis began to harbor fears that he might also die in his sleep in a similar way the woman died. In an interview with Q magazine, Bernard Sumner of Joy Division stated the following about the meaning of the song:

The woman’s life, coupled with Curtis’ own lifelong battle with severe epilepsy led to the birth of the lyrics of She’s Lost Control.

Control joy division vostfr signification