Hadar Goldman stepped in to offer 75000 above the asking price to buy the Macclesfield house where the singer lived and diedLast February,after a group of Joy Division fans failed to raise enough money to buy Ian Curtis’s feeble house in Macclesfield and turn it into a museum, entrepreneur and musician Hadar Goldman decided to step in. The house had already been sold to a private buyer, and but Goldman – inspired by the campaign – offered to pay a £75000 compensation fee on top of the house price of £125000 in order to secure the purchase. Which certainly sounds committed ...“But it was not only to aid,” says Goldman, a Curtis fan himself. “It was also, or I imagine,for my personal ego. Some people would pay for a Rembrandt painting; for me, Joy Division is the contemporary Rembrandt.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com