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Love Will Tear Us Apart is a Synth-pop act. Their sound grew out of Frank Sinatra, Sparks, Giorgio Moroder, Captain & Tennille and Neu!. Those roots explain a lot about how Love Will Tear Us Apart arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into U2, Tears for Fears, Paul Young, Swans and Squarepusher, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 17 connections around Love Will Tear Us Apart, reaching back through Frank Sinatra and forward to U2. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"Love Will Tear Us Apart" is a song by the English rock band Joy Division, released in June 1980 as a non-album single. Its lyrics were inspired by lead singer Ian Curtis' marital problems and struggles with epilepsy. The single was released one month after Curtis' suicide.
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Love Will Tear Us Apart grew out of Frank Sinatra, Sparks, Giorgio Moroder and Captain & Tennille, shares an orbit with In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, went on to shape U2, Tears for Fears, Paul Young and Swans. 17 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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