{"id":392196,"date":"2026-04-10T20:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392196\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T20:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T20:57:07","slug":"radiohead-covers-joy-divisions-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392196\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiohead Covers Joy Division\u2019s Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a livestream recorded many years ago, this is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cedNya7e8Uc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radiohead covering Joy Division\u2019s Ceremony<\/a>. The song was originally written by Joy Division but the version most people know is New Order\u2019s \u2014 it was their first single. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ceremony_(New_Order_song)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">From Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCeremony\u201d was one of the last Joy Division songs to be composed, with lyrics written by Ian Curtis. According to guitarist Bernard Sumner, the group wrote the song a few weeks before Ian Curtis died \u201cto try and heal him through music\u201d and keep him \u201cinvolved in the band and involved in music and remind him of what \u2026 a great future he had\u201d. Sumner concluded, \u201cUnfortunately, it didn\u2019t work\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Just three versions of Joy Division performing the song exist, including one on the group\u2019s compilation album <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Still_(Joy_Division_album)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Still<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From a livestream recorded many years ago, this is Radiohead covering Joy Division\u2019s Ceremony. The song was originally&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":{"0":"post-392196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}