Award is for fans and Ian Curtis, says Peter Hook

Peter Hook said he would be thrilled to pick up the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame award later on behalf of Joy Division and New Order "for Ian Curtis and for all our fans".

The Salford musician will be in Los Angeles to receive the accolade. Fellow Manchester band Oasis will also be inducted but are not expected to attend the ceremony.

Joy Division and New Order have been given the award jointly - with the late Ian Curtis, Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert being honoured alongside Hook.

Bassist Hook said he was going to the ceremony as a "thank you" to the fans as "without them we'd be absolutely nothing".

Hook, a founding member of Joy Division, wrote on Instagram he was "wonderfully pleased" with the honour and that he had been "looking forward to it for years".

He ended by saying "I will see you on the night," presenting a conundrum for his former bandmates, with whom he is not on speaking terms following a protracted legal battle.

They are not thought to be attending the ceremony.

Hook told BBC Radio Manchester: "I am going there for the simple reason that our fans have voted us in to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and without them we'd be absolutely nothing.

"This is the big thank you that I am going to take it on behalf of our fans of Joy Division and New Order."

New Order was formed after Joy Division's lead singer Ian Curtis took his own life at the age of 23 in 1980.

The label behind both bands was Factory Records - co-founded by one of Manchester's most iconic music pioneers, the late Tony Wilson.

Joy Division and New Order were both inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

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