06-03-2015 13:00 via feeds.theguardian.com

Come on pilgrims, let rock'n'roll shrines rest in peace

As with other rock ‘holy grails’, the campaign to turn Ian Curtis’s home into a museum misses the point that the magic was in the musicThe current campaign to turn Ian Curtis’s home in Macclesfield into a museum dedicated to the late Joy Division singer has left New Order’s Bernard Sumner “torn”, as he believes it might become a “monument to suicide”. If the campaign is successful, it’ll be among a number of sites regarded as worthy of “pilgrimages” by the supposed rock�
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