Peter Hook is an English musician, best known as the bassist and co-founder of the rock bands Joy Division and New Order. Hook often used the bass as a lead instrument, playing melodies on the high strings with a signature heavy chorus effect. In New Order, he would do this, leaving the actual basslines to keyboards or sequencers.
Hook performing at Nocturnal Culture Night on 13 January 2018
Hook playing with New Order in 2005
Peter Hook and The Light in 2018
Peter Hook performing at Terminal 5, New York, 27 August 2022
Joy Division were an English rock band formed in Salford in 1976. The group consisted of vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Ian Curtis, guitarist/keyboardist Bernard Sumner, bassist Peter Hook and drummer Stephen Morris.
Joy Division, c. 1979: Morris, Curtis, Sumner, Hook