New Order – Movement

A couple of songs on 'Movement' stem from the initial songwriting session the band undertook in the summer of 1980. 'Dreams Never End' and 'Truth' were both played at the initial New Order concerts (still played as trio) in the US that September. At this point it was still undecided as to who should be vocalist. The interim solution was that all three took turns at singing before finally deciding that Bernard Sumner should take the main vocalist's role with Peter Hook as back-up (though he takes lead on 'Dreams Never End' and 'Doubts Even Here'). The introduction in November 1980 of Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris's girlfriend, lightened the burden on Sumner who had to play guitar, keyboards and sing (something he found impossible to do simultaneously) and enabled the band to pursue a more electronic approach.