<P> Talking to Ian Curtis is...or was a strange experience because he's very warm...he talked--it was like two people inside of him--he talked very light, and he talked very well - mannered, and very polite . But when he got behind the microphone he really surged forth; there was another energy . It seemed like he was just two people and, you know, "Love Will Tear Us Apart", it was like (when) that record was released...it was like, as if, there were the personalities, separate; there they were, torn apart . </P> <P> According to Curtis's wife Deborah, to create the single cover photo, the song title was etched upon a sheet of metal; this was aged with acid and exposed to the weather to create the appearance of a stone slab . For the 12" version of the single, a photograph of a grieving angel on the Ribaudo family tomb in Genoa's Monumental Cemetery of Staglieno, sculpted by Onorato Toso circa 1910, was used . The photograph was taken by Bernard Pierre Wolff in 1978 . </P> <P> The video was shot by the band themselves on 25 April 1980 as they rehearsed the song at T.J. Davidson's studio, where the band had previously rehearsed during the early days of their career . At the start of the video, the door that opens and shuts is carved with Ian Curtis' name; reportedly this was the beginning of an abusive message (the rest later erased) carved into the door . </P> <P> Due to poor production, the video's colour is' browned out' at some points . Also, as the track recorded during the recording of the video was poor, it was replaced with the single - edit recording of the song by the band's record company in Australia, leading to problems with the synchronisation of music and video . This edited version of the music video would later become the official version due to the improvement of sound quality . </P>

Where was love will tear us apart filmed