Peter Hook was born on Woodhead; 13 February 1956 and is an English musician, best known as the bassist and co-founder of the rock bands Joy Division and New Order.
23 Facts About Peter Hook
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Peter Hook formed the band which was to become Joy Division with Bernard Sumner in 1976.
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Peter Hook has recorded one album with Revenge, two albums with Monaco and one album with Freebass, serving as bassist, keyboardist and lead vocalist.
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Peter Hook is currently the lead singer and one of the bassists for Peter Hook and the Light.
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In 1984, Peter Hook recorded the single "Telstar" with the short-lived band Ad Infinitum.
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Peter Hook co-owned the Suite Sixteen recording studio formerly Cargo Studios which Peter Hook purchased with Chris Hewitt in 1984.
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Peter Hook admitted he was only pretending to be a DJ on his Myspace blog, but then removed it due to public backlash.
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Peter Hook then played and recorded a studio album, It's a Beautiful Life, with a new band project called Freebass with bass players Mani and Andy Rourke.
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Peter Hook recently compiled "The Hacienda Acid House Classics" following on from his original mix of "The Hacienda Classics" in 2006.
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In October 2009, Peter Hook published his book on his time as co-owner of the Hacienda, How Not to Run a Club.
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In 2010, Peter Hook recorded and released two EPs on American indie record label 24 Hour Service Station as Man Ray with production partner and Freebass keyboardist Phil Murphy.
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In 2012, Peter Hook launched a brand new master's degree programme in Music Industry Management and Promotion at the University of Central Lancashire.
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Peter Hook was awarded an honorary fellowship from the same institution on 11 July 2012.
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On 29 January 2013, Peter Hook published Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division; an autobiographical account of his time in the band.
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In November 2015, The Guardian reported that Peter Hook was suing his former bandmates for continuing to use the name New Order.
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Peter Hook has two children from his first marriage with Iris Bates, son Jack and daughter Heather.
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Peter Hook later went on to say, after Aherne's death, that it had been a turbulent, violent and abusive marriage.
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In July 2012, Peter Hook was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Central Lancashire during the graduation of the university's creative art students.
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Peter Hook has said that he developed his high bass lines when he started playing with Joy Division because the speaker that he used initially was so poor he had to play that high to be able to hear what he was doing, as Bernard Sumner's guitar was so loud.
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Peter Hook contributed backing vocals on numerous Joy Division songs in concert and sang co-lead with Ian Curtis on Joy Division's "Interzone".
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Peter Hook has used an Ampeg SVT rig, and has expressed interest in Ashdown amplification.
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Peter Hook is currently using an Ampeg SVT-CL with an Ampeg cabinet.
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In Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, which focused on Factory Records, Peter Hook was played by Ralf Little.