Happy 70th birthday to Bernard Sumner. Easily one of the four best singers in the original line-up of New Order 🎉

Your annual reminder that Love Will Tear Us Apart is not just for life, it's also for Christmas. lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... Have a good one. And if this is a tough time for you, an extra hug x youtu.be/TW1AgX-Fv3M

The Australian country rock version… possibly my favourite LWTUA cover of all. Disappointingly, the backing band are all men and don't look like they've been anywhere near a prison. Love Will Tear Us Apart #8 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor...

Been a tough week one way and another so Shack at Shepherds Bush is just what I need. Fully expect grown men crying. youtu.be/_co5NwR_twU?...

Saturday’s boring fact of the day. Madonna is the young dancer and backing singer at the front in this video of the 1979 disco classic, she toured with Patrick Hernandez for 6 months. I need to get out more. youtu.be/X06AHSUJEAE?...

Love Will Tear Us Apart Again heard from two rooms away and approximately transcribed.

Bought a copy at the Publishing Scotland book fair thing at the weekend. Looking forward to diving in! 🙏

To have played in one great band may be regarded as good fortune. To have played in two looks like genius. RIP Mani ✊xx

(And here's the Transatlantic Sessions performance I mention, which includes a young Rufus Wainwright, his mother and aunt, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, and Emmylou Harris.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_Bo...

Simultaneously the gentlest and fiercest voice in folk music. A sad and eye-opening story but good to know DG is still around 🙏

The no-frills German punk version – all done and dusted in less than 90 seconds Love Will Tear Us Apart #60 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor...

The electronic loop-pedal version recorded in a ceramics shop in Amsterdam by a violinist and international frisbee-player from Vancouver… and one of the very best. Love Will Tear Us Apart #74 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/NmRRiTFXvN8

Can we just appreciate the majesty and the hilarity of these screams altogether! Magic.

The Italian medieval rock version Love Will Tear Us Apart #35 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/0VZKdhS04Jo

The eighties synth-pop version from Dortmund. Love Will Tear Us Apart #79 youtu.be/Kur1MceNaoE lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor...

Ruin a song by adding the word ‘literally’ to the title. I’ll start. Love will literally tear us apart.

The Californian straight-edge version Love Will Tear Us Apart #80 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor...

The LA scream scene version Love Will Tear Us Apart #73 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/kyUJp2ha3LQ

The made version… includes the story of how I inadvertently went to Bruce Reynolds’ wake. Love Will Tear Us Apart #47 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/7fHpUbkEWa0

The Canadian waltz version (no.2) – from the Time Traveler’s Wife movie Love Will Tear Us Apart #65 youtu.be/z5PcW0kguCM lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor...

The Canadian waltz version (no.1) Love Will Tear Us Apart #35 youtu.be/1bmEafyuIKw lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor...

Track listing for the lost Fall album revealed.

The Argentinian husband-and-wife singalong rock version. Strange choice of song to perform with your spouse but hey ho. Love Will Tear Us Apart #88 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/J2MyJ-iuh4g

The 11-minute indie-prog version from Philadelphia Love Will Tear Us Apart #90 youtu.be/kINAusvOBqk lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor...

This whipped-up controversy means we’re now denied seeing on iPlayer the lovely moment when Bobby Dylan gave his daughter a sweaty hug on stage, and she made that look universal to girls & young women across the planet when confronted with their dads, whom they love dearly, being completely gross.

3 lovely things from the world of a very smalltime DJ. So the second week of the month is usually the quietest, so \i packed a more chilled set than usual. There was of course lots of Brian Wilson and Sly Stone in the bag. A guy came in and heard me play 'Lets go away..' & 'You caught me smiling'>

The most beautiful two and a half minutes from a body of work not short of beautiful moments. RIP 🙏🙏

Pottajennka…. The Finnish polka-infused folk-dance version Love Will Tear Us Apart #94 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/jJIhVIKCvGg

Wenn liebe uns zerreisst… the German cabaret version. By a man who looks like Alan Rickman starring in a Barry Manilow biopic. Love Will Tear Us Apart #40 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/3qjfXQwioUc

Dann ist liebe ein Teufelkreis… the original German pop version Love Will Tear Us Apart #39 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/6JaSzx3YXqQ

El amor nos separara… the other Spanish language version Love Will Tear Us Apart #58 www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Tm... lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor...

El amor nos destrozará otra vez… the Chilean punk version Love Will Tear Us Apart #59 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/2IkUhOVkxIw

The disco version from Hamburg Love Will Tear Us Apart #41 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/sVtn7BH5E7k

I’m here for this 🙏

He played on LWTUA too 🙏 #RIPClemBurke youtu.be/sX715JkSsdk?... lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor...

The reggae version from Edinburgh Love Will Tear Us Apart #33 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/lfOcijFDqtM

The original loungecore version… before Nouvelle Vague got their hands on it. Love Will Tear Us Apart #84 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/RdafP7zqwfA

The country-punk supergroup version. Love Will Tear Us Apart #31 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/sX715JkSsdk

The folk royalty version Love Will Tear Us Apart #6 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/jCgWqoyG6qc

The mid-noughties contemporary jazz version from New York Love Will Tear Us Apart #69 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/Pf5PH4BABic

The Pennsylvania bubblegoth version Love Will Tear Us Apart #96 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/v_vLk2D32IY

The last 20 seconds of this... 🙏 #rickbucklerrip youtu.be/EndqhHJx-Ko?...

The Detroit girl-group version Love Will Tear Us Apart #89 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/zGMTDdu_hwQ

The Brooklyn dub version…and the full story of the rogue umlaut. Love Will Tear Us Apart #32 Dub Will Tear Us Apart lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/2gnCDwb_EtQ

First out of the blocks… the skinny-trousered Viennese new wave version, a top ten hit in Austria in 1980. Love Will Tear Us Apart #19 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/RoUwyNESIGw

The Toronto rock choir version Love Will Tear Us Apart #42 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/hNRtqHtYINY

The Elvis impressionist from Belfast’s version Love Will Tear Us Apart #29 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/mwSKBy_AqaM

The French experimental rock icon’s version. Love Will Tear Us Apart #91 lwtua.weebly.com/home/categor... youtu.be/4So3oNDYjJY

If you haven’t read Marianne Faithfull’s autobiography (co-written with David Dalton) it is the story of an astonishing life and a very good read.

Rest in power Marianne x youtu.be/lyovXYWphkc?...