I watched the Joy Division documentary recently... one of the journalists they interviewed talked about this, surprisingly to me, as being one of the events that shaped the atmosphere of the time when the group members were growing up. And she said it was the primary reason that there was never a "Swinging Manchester" in the sixties like there was in London... she said that Hindley and Brady ruined it for the city, and you can still feel it in the atmosphere today.
I wonder if that's true, or just her perception....
i haven't seen that documentary, but i recognise what she said. i think that's generally held to be true, it was the first case of serial child abduction in england so it's been called the "end of innocence" in the uk. it was also the first time a woman was involved in high-profile (i'm paraquoting wikipedia here) serial child sex murders.
i think it was such a grisly case, and because the findings of the bodies were spread out over a few years, and about 20 years later another body was found and hindley and brady admitted to having killed more children than have been found, that it had a heavy effect on almost everyone. i think it also comes into account that manchester isn't really a very big place. but i've never thought of it in relation to the music scene in manchester (besides the smiths), so that's a really interesting perspective.
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I watched the Joy Division documentary recently... one of the journalists they interviewed talked about this, surprisingly to me, as being one of the events that shaped the atmosphere of the time when the group members were growing up. And she said it was the primary reason that there was never a "Swinging Manchester" in the sixties like there was in London... she said that Hindley and Brady ruined it for the city, and you can still feel it in the atmosphere today.
I wonder if that's true, or just her perception....
i haven't seen that documentary, but i recognise what she said. i think that's generally held to be true, it was the first case of serial child abduction in england so it's been called the "end of innocence" in the uk. it was also the first time a woman was involved in high-profile (i'm paraquoting wikipedia here) serial child sex murders.
i think it was such a grisly case, and because the findings of the bodies were spread out over a few years, and about 20 years later another body was found and hindley and brady admitted to having killed more children than have been found, that it had a heavy effect on almost everyone. i think it also comes into account that manchester isn't really a very big place. but i've never thought of it in relation to the music scene in manchester (besides the smiths), so that's a really interesting perspective.
that being said, this is just what i gather from reading about the case here and there.
there's something lyrically beautiful about those pictures though, despite the grim subject matter.
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