New Order (Let There be a rock)

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 * name = New Order
 * Origin = Manchester
 * Genre = Grunge, Alternative rock, Post-Punk
 * Years_active = 1980-Present
 * Label = Abycess,
 * Current_members = Ian Curtis
 * Bernard Sumner
 * Stephen Morris
 * Peter Hook
 * Gillian Gilbert

New Order is an English band of Rock and Electronic Music formed in Manchester in the year 1980, by Bernard Sumner (guitar and synthesizers), Peter Hook (bass and synthesizers), Stephen Morris (drums, synths and programming) of Gillian Gilbert (guitar and synthesizers) and Ian Curtis (vocals, guitar and synthesizers).

Making an innovative post-punk mix of electronic dance and synthpop, New Order became one of the most acclaimed and influential bands of the 1980s. Although the group's early years were under the shadow of the legacy and the sound of the Joy Division, their experience on the New York club scene in the early 1980s, where they met producer Arthur Baker, increased the band's knowledge about dance music, helping them incorporate style elements into their work. The 1983 single "Blue Monday" is considered a "watershed" not only in New Order's career but also a revolution in the history of music in general, [3] [4] [5] an example of how the New Order became more and more involved with electronic music during the '80s.

Already in 1981, from the single "Everything's Gone Green", the band began to develop their own sound, which is described as a balanced synthesis between post-punk and experimental electronic dance music. New Order is one of the pioneering bands of electronic dance music and was the first band to unite this musical style with rock, thus creating a new musical style, which is known as Alternative Dance [2] or Dance Rock. 7]

The band has sold more than 20 million albums. Their biggest hit, Blue Monday, is the best-selling 12-inch single of all time, with its over 3 million copies sold. [3] [8] [9] For both his music and his own nightclub inaugurated in 1982, The Haçienda, New Order is one of the most influential and revolutionary names of all time in rock and electronic music.

In 2005, New Order won the "Godlike Genius" award for the NME Awards and along with Joy Division was included in the UK Music Hall of Fame. Among the numerous musical artists strongly influenced by New Order include: Pet Shop Boys, Moby, The Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Stone Roses, Happy Mondays, Smashing Pumpkins, Primal Scream, Radiohead, Massive Attack, The Charlatans, 808 State, The Killers, LCD Soundsystem and Arcade Fire. [10] [11] [7] In September of 2015, the band released its tenth studio album, Music Complete.