News of the Weird: The gravestone marking the final resting place of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis has been stolen, reports the BBC. The singer committed suicide in 1980. Officials say that the memorial, inscribed with the words “Ian Curtis 18-5-80 Love Will Tear Us Apart,” was taken from Macclessfield Cemetery in Cheshire, England sometime late Tuesday or early Wednesday. A police spokesman told the BBC that the lack of area security cameras means they have “no apparent leads.” Okay, stop just a minute. This is a singer whose stature just keeps rising, with two movies about him in the last couple years, and whose short, troubled life and self-inflicted death means he’s one of the great cult figures of our time; his gravestone features the title of his band’s biggest hit, and nobody was watching it? Plus, doesn’t England have CCTV cameras trained on everybody at all times? Where are they when you need them? Boy, this is making me depressed. I need to watch a Joy Division video. Join me in despair, won’t you, after the jump.
“Shadowplay” (live on Granada Television, 1978)
