Ian Curtis: Punk rock, epilepsy, and suicide

Résumé

Ian Curtis was the front man of the post-punk band Joy Division. He suffered from epilepsy and actively incorporated his experiences of the disease in his lyrics. Curtis had frequent epileptic seizures, both on and off stage. After dying from suicide in 1980, he became a legend in the post-punk milieu. The impact which the epilepsy, the epilepsy treatment, and comorbid depression had on his artistic life and premature death is not well known. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved) *Epilepsy *Musicians *Rock Music Suicide