Factory Records, despite the near bankruptcy caused by Blue Monday’s high production costs, reaped the rewards of the track’s ...

Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Bernard Sumner, and Peter Hook, of the band New Order, at the Roxy, London, 1986. | Getty Images New Order was right there at the forefront, and Blue Monday was th ...

now accompanied by keyboardist Gillian Gilbert, under the name New Order. Still the undisputed spearhead of the iconic Factory label, as a tribute to Curtis, the band first finished recording ...