New Order Then: New Order formed from surviving members of Joy Division in late 1980: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris. Sumner lost by drawing the short straw to take over vocal chores. New Order added Gillian Gilbert (Morris' then girlfriend) while recording their debut album Movement. It took a two albums for Sumner to shake the uncomfortable feeling of being the band's frontman. Their first single "Ceremony" (a Joy Division composition) made the UK Top 40 and proved there was still something driving this band. Much was made of the "out from the ashes" idea which pushed the band into avoiding doing interviews to avoid the questions. It was 1983's "Blue Monday" that woke the world up. This song would later be looked at as the link between the hip hop/house scene and disco. And also became the #1 selling 12inch single of all time in the UK. (Later possibly eclipsed by Elton John's "Candle In The Wind '97") They continued recording albums with bigger and bigger hits. UK Top 5 hits followed with "True Faith" (US Top 40) and 1988's Quincy Jones remix of "Blue Monday." Going from punk to dance to pop wasn't what the band's original motivation. And their UK #1 hit "World In Motion" made for the English World Cup team pushed the band into hiatus. Now: Through the 1990's New Order went into side projects. Sumner joined ex-Smith's Johnny Marr and formed Electronic recording two albums and a new one due in 1999. The bass player, Peter Hook, formed Revenge for two albums and then Monaco. Gilbert and Morris having time to themselves recorded as The Other Two and released one album, got married and are overdue for their follow-up album. 1993 saw the release of a new New Order album called Republic and it's first single "Regret" scored their biggest US hit (#28). New Order got back together in 1999 for some festival dates, included the new song "Brutal" on the soundtrack to The Beach and have been hard at work on a new album.