Summary of Peter Hook's Unknown Pleasures

By IRB Media

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#1 I was born in 1956 in Salford. My parents split up when I was young, and I and my brother went to live with our grandmother. We had little to do except mooch around and kick a tin.

#2 In 1962, Bill was offered a new job that would take him and his family to Jamaica. They were moving there, and my mother was terrified because they would only have chicken and chips for dinner for seventeen days.

#3 My family and I moved to Kingston, Jamaica, where I went to a private school. The locals had gotten tired of the Chinese and whites running all the businesses, and had begun to turf them out.

#4 When Bill’s contract came up for renewal, his wife persuaded him to move back to Salford. However, when they were paid a visit by police and tax officials, who claimed that Bill had mis-paid his taxes, they were unable to leave until he paid them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822513020

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was born in 1956 in Salford. My parents split up when I was young, and I and my brother went to live with our grandmother. We had little to do except mooch around and kick a tin.

#2

In 1962, Bill was offered a new job that would take him and his family to Jamaica. They were moving there, and my mother was terrified because they would only have chicken and chips for dinner for seventeen days.

#3

My family and I moved to Kingston, Jamaica, where I went to a private school. The locals had gotten tired of the Chinese and whites running all the businesses, and had begun to turf them out.

#4

When Bill’s contract came up for renewal, his wife persuaded him to move back to Salford. However, when they were paid a visit by police and tax officials, who claimed that Bill had mis-paid his taxes, they were unable to leave until he paid them.

#5

I went to Salford Grammar School, where I met Barney Dickin, who would become Sumner. I had a lifelong love of chicken and chips and a lifelong fear of spiders, thanks in part to my time in Jamaica.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I was a thief, and I got caught a lot. I was always in trouble with the police, and I didn’t have any friends. I was one of the few who got affection from their parents, but I didn’t have any friends to share it with.

#2

The same thing happened with me and my friends when we went to steal from the bookies. We were bored, so we figured we’d go into a nearby warehouse and steal some stuff. We used to go to these wonderful concerts with all this beautiful stuff backstage, and we’d take it.

#3

I got interested in girls, and me and my friend Barney began hanging out with the school hard-nuts. We never did our homework, but instead took it off the swots in the morning and copied it in the cloakroom.

#4

I had a job at Manchester Town Hall in 1973, cleaning