Joy Division 'Unknown Pleasures' LP

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Joy Division 'Unknown Pleasures' LP cover

Peter Saville's minimalist design for the cover of Joy Division's debut LP in 1979 is now regarded as a classic. Based on an image from the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy, supplied by the band, it features a series of 100 consecutive pulses from CP1919, the first pulsar discovered. It is sometimes referred to as the 'dying star artwork'.

Now designated CP1919+21, the pulsar's radio signal was originally detected in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Anthony Hewish. Its regular signal led the researchers to briefly consider the possibility it came from an extraterrestrial civilisation and it was jokingly referred to as LGM-1 for 'little green men'.

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Inv. number: 2006-112