{"id":2367,"date":"2012-11-30T05:48:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T05:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/11\/30\/peter-hook-i-want-atmosphere-played-at-my-funeral\/"},"modified":"2012-11-30T05:48:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-30T05:48:29","slug":"peter-hook-i-want-atmosphere-played-at-my-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/11\/30\/peter-hook-i-want-atmosphere-played-at-my-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Hook: &#8216;I want &#8216;Atmosphere&#8217; played at my funeral&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ef\/Peterhook.jpg\/220px-Peterhook.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"117\" height=\"156\" \/><br \/>Joy Division bassist Peter Hook says he was surprised when he first heard the lyrics to &#8216;Love Will Tear Us Apart&#8217;. Hook says he was &#8220;very, very shocked at how barbed and how vicious&#8221; the lyrics to the track are.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was written very quickly,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;I only really analysed the lyrics when I came to sing it again, to be honest&#8230;I certainly wouldn\u2019t like that song to have been written about me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hook was speaking to NME as part of the &#8216;Song Stories&#8217; series, where he also revealed the secrets of many of Joy Division\u2019s other most famous songs. He says he remains &#8220;very proud&#8221; of &#8216;Transmission&#8217;, describing it as &#8220;maniacally sung&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Referring to a poll Hook says he had seem which claimed that &#8216;Atmosphere&#8217; is one of the most commonly used tracks at funerals while Robbie Williams&#8217; &#8216;Angels&#8217; is one of the most popular songs played at weddings, he jokes: &#8220;I really wish we&#8217;d written &#8216;Angels&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: NME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy Division bassist Peter Hook says he was surprised when he first heard the lyrics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}