What is the name of the drummer in Joy Division?
Stephen Paul David Morris (born 28 October 1957 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England) is a musician in the Manchester based rock band New Order. Although he is primarily a percussionist, he also plays keyboards. He also drummed in the band from which New Order was formed, Joy Division, and in The Other Two, a band made up of Morris and his wife, Gillian Gilbert. Morris is known for his machine like drumming that is seamlessly woven with New Order’s drum machine sounds. Footage of Morris’s skills can be seen in the Transmission video on YouTube. (He attended the same school in Macclesfield as Joy Division vocalist Ian Curtis and was expelled for abusing cough syrup). Early on, Morris was a strong contender to become New Order’s lead vocalist, and his voice can be heard on some early tracks (especially live versions). He also contributed musically to as-yet-unreleased demos by fellow Mancunians Quando Quango. Something of an eccentric, Morris has been called “daft as a brush” by bandmate P
