![]() ![]() Take a look at Sumner’s Wikipedia page: it’s pitifully short for a man who was at the heart of last two great revolutions in British music – post-punk and acid house – and remains a globally recognised music icon. These tales and many more besides – just as intriguing – are included in Sumner’s recently published autobiography, Chapter And Verse a book that’s so much more than another insider’s take on the already well-told stories of Joy Division, New Order, Factory Records and The Haçienda. Then, when he got home, he found out that his mother had passed away – exactly in the way he’d seen in his dream. The next day, Sumner, haunted by the dream, found himself unexpectedly getting into a fight with the driver of a car who had almost run over him and his family. ![]() It stopped in front of them, shook its mane and dipped its head, then took off back up the hill.Įleven years later, on the night before Sumner’s mother died, he had a nightmare in which he saw her slumped forward dead in her wheelchair (she suffered from cerebral palsy). ![]() Suddenly and inexplicably, a white horse – no rider, no saddle – came galloping past the many other people enjoying the sunshine on that warm day. He was with Simon Topping from post-punk group A Certain Ratio, standing at the bottom of a hill. The day before Ian Curtis died – on – Bernard Sumner was in Heaton Park, Manchester, the same place where the Stone Roses played three reunion shows in 2012. What happened needed making crystal clear” “There have been a lot of insults flying my way from one particular direction. ![]()
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