New Order's Stephen Morris, Gillian Gilbert, Bernard Sumner, and Peter Hook in the 1980s. (Photo: Steve Rapport/Getty Images) New Order’s “Blue Monday” was released 40 years ago, on March 7 ...

It’s no stretch to say the song “changed music forever,” as NME proclaimed in 2018. Not that New Order went into “Blue Monday” with any such goals.

New Order’s “Blue Monday” came out 40 years ago to day on March 7, 1983. The single, which is one of the best-selling 12″ singles of all time, has had a long shelf life, and today the band ...

New Order‘s landmark “Blue Monday” was released 40 years ago today. It became the biggest-selling 12″ off all time, but ironically the iconic Peter Saville-designed die-cut sleeve that ...

Blue Monday 2025 evokes the memories of New Order’s classic single and music video for one writer. The single, released after the untimely end of Joy Division, became a smash hit and defined an ...

Writing ‘Blue Monday’ was an exercise in learning what we could do with it all.” Meanwhile, Primavera Sound Festival announced New Order as its final headliner for its 2023 line-up earlier ...

New Order was breaking new ground in electronic music with “Blue Monday.” The staccato bass line was created using a Moog synthesizer and sequenced on a homemade machine built by Sumner.

But there’s so much more beyond “Blue Monday.” Read our list below: — “Dreams Never End” (1981) New Order were still underneath the shadow of Joy Division in 1981, a hard shackle to shake.

New Order. Image: Press New Order are celebrating 40 years of “Blue Monday” with a range of special merchandise. ORDER NOW: Peter Gabriel is on the cover of the latest issue of Uncut ...