Hook 'won't release lost Joy Division song'

Peter Hook has revealed that he has refused to release a lost Joy Division track because he will not "make any money" from it.

The former bassist of the Manchester band said that he had recently completed work on their unfinished song 'Pictures', but is adamant that it will not be made available because of concerns about illegal downloading.

He told NME: "The odd thing in that situation is that you can't sell it and once you've recorded it, it's gone and people will just download it for free. So for me to go in and record it... we could do it but the fact that we wouldn't make the money back on it stops me from doing it."

Hook went on to insist that he only wanted to finish the track as a tribute to the group's late frontman Ian Curtis, adding: "On one tape was a little snippet of a jam with Ian Curtis singing along to a song called 'Pictures'.

"I was playing on it but it was unfinished. Ian used to say to me that every song that you start, you should finish, and it's something that has always stuck with me."