The great bulk of the interviews were done by Jon Savage and Grant Gee during the production of the Brown Owl Films documentary Joy Division, in autumn 2016. In order of appearance:
Bernard Sumner (two interviews)
Peter Hook (two interviews)
Stephen Morris
Tony Wilson (two interviews)
C. P. Lee
Peter Saville
Paul Morley
Liz Naylor
Terry Mason
Pete Shelley
Iain Gray
Alan Hempsall
Richard Boon
Kevin Cummins
Jeremy Kerr
Bob Dickinson
Richard Searling
Lesley Gilbert
Richard Kirk
Jon Wozencroft
Lindsay Reade
Annik Honoré
Anton Corbijn
These are supplemented by interviews done by Jon Savage in preparation for the Joy Division article published in Mojo, issue 8, July 1994, for which interviewees included Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, Tony Wilson and Deborah Curtis. Martin Hannett, Peter Hook and Tony Wilson were also interviewed in 1989, during the preparation of England’s Dreaming.
Supplementary interviews with Mark Reeder, Kevin Cummins, Daniel Meadows, Jill Furmanovsky, Dave Simpson and Dylan Jones were conducted in 2018. Michael Butterworth was contacted during the research for a Guardian article on Ian Curtis’s reading, published as ‘Controlled Chaos’ in May 2008.