An Ideal For Living is an EP released by Joy Division in 1978, shortly after changing their name from "Warsaw". Joy Division was a post punk band formed in 1977 in Manchester, England. ... 1978 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...
All tracks were recorded at the Penine Sound Studios, Oldham, on December 14, 1977. A 7" version was in June, followed by a 12" version in September. Both releases were on the band's own label. Location within the British Isles. ...
The EP consisted of:
Warsaw
Leaders Of Men
Failures
No Love Lost
The cover has a black-and-white picture of a blonde Hitler Youth member beating a drum, which was drawn by guitarist Bernard Sumner, and the words "Joy Division!" printed in a Gothic font. The cover design fuelled the controversy over the band's supposed Nazi sympathies. Flag of the Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth (named Hitlerjugend in German, abbreviated HJ) was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party that existed from 1922 to 1945. ... Bernard Sumner (born January 4, 1947 in Manchester, England) was the guitarist and keyboardist for Joy Division. ... Besides its original meaning, of or relating to the Goths, a Germanic tribe and thus the Gothic language and the Gothic alphabet, and aside from its Early Modern connotations of rough, barbarous, the word Gothic has been used since the 18th century to refer to distinctly different things. ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ...
References
An Ideal For Living 7" in details (http://www.iancurtis.org/records/anidealforliving7.html)
An Ideal For Living 12" (repress) in details (http://www.iancurtis.org/records/anidealforliving12.html)
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