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New Order star Peter Hook has revealed he wants Calvin Harris and David Guetta to remix the band's iconic hit 'Blur Monday' for its 30th Anniversary.
The eighties electro star has revealed a love of two of dance music's biggest modern stars, comparing them to eighties disco star, Arthur Baker.
"When we went to New York in '81/'82, the disco and electro started to sink in," says Hook in an interview with The Observer. "I knew we weren't going to go disco. We were going to offer a white northern take on black disco music – and then we started working with Arthur Baker, who wrote 'IOU'. His attitude to writing dance music was like a punk writing punk. Very adventurous, off the wall, anything goes.
"I like the modern versions of him too – Calvin Harris, Soulwax, David Guetta. My dream for the 30th anniversary of 'Blue Monday' is for them all to do a mad commercial remix of it."
Hook is not currently a member of New Order, and may face opposition from his former bandmates. In particular Bernard Sumner, who called Hook's performance of the band's albums Movement and Power, Corruption & Lies as 'real commercial'.
Peter Hook wants a Guetta remix - whether New Order bandmates approve or not
He told XFM in July 2012: “I’ve got to be very careful about my answer, it’s important. He was in Joy Division so he has a right to write the book, but he’s a very opinionated person and quite a lot of the time his opinions are wrong – so I’d be very wary of that book.”
When asked if he had any plans to write his own version of the Joy Division story, Sumner added: “Eventually the truth always comes out doesn’t it? One day the truth will come out.”
Below: New Order live in London, 2012
