Barney Sumner – Joy Division Guitarist
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Bernard/Barney Sumner/Albrecht/Dicken/Rubble/ was Joy Division’s song-writer and guitarist. He specialized in plagiarizing guitar lines off Black Sabbath b-sides and dressing like a lost schoolboy on stage.
Throughout Joy Division’s existence he was subject to a media gagging order by Ian Curtis who felt that if the guitarist mouthed off about his love for Kebabs, Carlsberg and glue during interviews he’d ruin the air of mystique surrounding the band.
Sumner later waived the gagging order after Curtis’s death, forming New Order a dance band who specialized in writing songs about Kebabs, Carlsberg and glue.
He is now rumoured to be involved in a perpetual war with Peter Hook who purportedly mails him slabs of his own shit in the post.