I think the video you're describing is the video for 'Atmosphere' and
they're not KKK members, they're people dressed up as druids.
Bernard Sumner isn't racist, as are none of the band...Ian certainly
wasn't, as he was a fan of reggae music.

As for Ian's personal problems, i think it's best you read the
book 'Touching From A Distance' written by his widow Deborah.
It gives a really good insight into Ian's private and professional
life.


--- In unknownpleasures@..., "jaketheduck18"
<jakebutterworth@h...> wrote:
> That's very helpful thanks, however the video you are talking about
> and the one i am talking about is different. The one your talking
> about was used when Love Will Tear Us Apart was re-released in 1995
> along with the Joy Division Greatest Hits. The video I am talking
> about is where there are loads of Ku Klux Klan members walking
> around holding up the Love Will Tear Us Apart picture. I'm
guessing
> they used the '95 video as having images of the Ku Klux Klan could
> have been taken the wrong way. Another thing, my parents were
quite
> big fans of Joy Division and New Order, and my mum once stood next
> to the guitarist at a Cambridge thing, and she remembers him saying
> some quite racist things.
>
> Also what kind of man was Ian Curtis? Obviously he was depressed
> and had a lot of problems, but anything else?
>
> Thanks