Editing Bernard Sumner (section)

==Career==
[[File:Barney2005.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Sumner with New Order in NYC, 2005]]
Through his long career, Sumner has played music in many overlapping genres, including [[Rock music|rock]],<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/07/joy-divisionnew-orders-bernard-sumner-to-release-autobiography/ | title=Joy Division/New Order's Bernard Sumner to release autobiography | website=[[Consequence (publication)|Consequence of Sound]] | date=10 July 2014 | access-date=18 October 2015 | author=Coplan, Chris | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150919070411/http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/07/joy-divisionnew-orders-bernard-sumner-to-release-autobiography/ | archive-date=19 September 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> [[synth-pop]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bernard-sumner-mn0000759339 | title=Bernard Sumner | publisher=[[AllMusic]] | access-date=18 October 2015 | author=Sutton, Michael | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151018210717/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/bernard-sumner-mn0000759339 | archive-date=18 October 2015 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
[[electronica]],<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music-live-electronica-veterans-move-with-the-times-1044355.html | title=Music: Live: Electronica veterans move with the times | work=[[The Independent]]|publisher=ESL Media | date=23 October 2011 | access-date=18 October 2015 | author=James, Martin | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305151627/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music-live-electronica-veterans-move-with-the-times-1044355.html | archive-date=5 March 2016 | df=dmy-all }}</ref>
[[post-punk]], and [[new wave music|new&nbsp;wave]]. 

===Joy Division===
Sumner was a founding member of [[Joy Division]], formed at [[Salford]] in 1976. He and childhood friend [[Peter Hook]] both attended the fabled [[Sex Pistols]] concert at Manchester's [[Free Trade Hall]] on 4 June 1976 and whose music inspired them to perform together.<ref name="Mojo 1994">{{cite magazine |last=Savage |first=Jon |author-link=Jon Savage |date=July 1994 |title=Joy Division: Someone Take These Dreams Away |magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]}}</ref> Widely considered one of the most influential [[Band (rock and pop)|band]]s of the era, Sumner was lead guitarist (his main guitars were a [[Gibson SG]] and a custom [[Shergold#History|Shergold Masquerader]]),<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/Gibson-Recommends-Joy-Division.aspx | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131120825/http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/Gibson-Recommends-Joy-Division.aspx | archive-date=31 January 2013 | title=A Closer Look: Joy Division }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.shergoldguitars.com/history.html|title=History|website=Shergoldguitars.com|access-date=4 September 2024}}</ref> as well as playing [[electronic keyboards]]<ref>Reynolds, Simon (2005). Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978–1984. Penguin. {{ISBN|0-14-303672-6}}, p. 115</ref> and made his first vocal appearance on record singing the chorus of "Walked in Line" on the ''[[Warsaw (album)|Warsaw]]'' album.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.songtexte.com/songtext/warsaw/they-walked-in-line-7bd5166c.html|title=Warsaw - They Walked in Line Songtext|website=Songtexte.com|access-date=4 September 2024}}</ref> In May 1980, after the suicide of its lead singer, [[Ian Curtis]], Joy Division disbanded.{{sfn|Curtis|1995|p=132}}

===New Order===
Sumner and remaining band members [[Peter Hook]] and [[Stephen Morris (musician)|Stephen Morris]] started a new band named [[New Order (band)|New Order]], joined by keyboardist [[Gillian Gilbert]] in October 1980.<ref>Savage, Jon. "Joy Division: Someone Take These Dreams Away." ''Mojo''. July 1994.</ref> Though Hook, Morris, and Gilbert also contributed vocals on some early tracks, Sumner emerged as the band's permanent singer and lyricist, alongside playing guitar and keyboards.{{cn|date=March 2025}} 

Through a series of splits and reformations, the band has released ten studio albums.{{when|date=March 2025}} Sumner and Morris are the only members to be part of every lineup.{{cn|date=March 2025}} 

===Electronic===
In 1989, Sumner joined up with former [[The Smiths|Smiths]] guitarist [[Johnny Marr]] to form [[Electronic (band)|Electronic]]. The [[Pet Shop Boys]]' [[Neil Tennant]] collaborated on two tracks on their debut [[Electronic (album)|eponymous album]], providing vocals.{{cn|date=March 2025}} Sumner was their singer, guitarist, keyboardist and lyricist. Electronic released two other albums until a quiet disband in 2001 for Sumner to focus his efforts on New Order.{{cn|date=March 2025}} Sumner occasionally appears to sing Electronic songs at Marr's concerts.{{cn|date=March 2025}} 

===Bad Lieutenant===
[[Bad Lieutenant (band)|Bad Lieutenant]] included fellow New Order member [[Phil Cunningham (rock musician)|Phil Cunningham]] and Jake Evans of Rambo & Leroy. Stephen Morris of New Order and [[Blur (band)|Blur]] bassist [[Alex James (musician)|Alex James]] also performed on the band's debut album. Sumner provided vocals, guitar and lyrics. Bad Lieutenant disbanded after New Order reformed in 2011.{{cn|date=March 2025}} 

===Other projects===
In 1981, [[Pauline Murray]] and [[The Invisible Girls]] released their last single "[[Searching for Heaven]]", which included a guitar solo by Sumner, although he was not credited in the sleeves of its 7" and 10" edition at the time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discogs.com/Pauline-Murray-And-The-Invisible-Girls-Untitled/release/685055|title=Pauline Murray And Invisible Girls, The – Pauline Murray And The Invisible Girls|date=August 1993 |publisher=Discogs.com|access-date=29 September 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423234738/http://www.discogs.com/Pauline-Murray-And-The-Invisible-Girls-Untitled/release/685055|archive-date=23 April 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://lesdisquesducrepuscule.com/pauline_murray.html|title = Pauline Murray \ Biography|date = September 2014|access-date = 3 October 2014|website = Les Disques du Crépuscule|last = Nice|first = James|url-status = live|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141006095425/http://lesdisquesducrepuscule.com/pauline_murray.html|archive-date = 6 October 2014|df = dmy-all}}</ref> In 1983, Sumner co-produced, with Donald Johnson, the single "The Great Divide"/"Love in a Strange Place" by the band Foreign Press. Foreign Press (aka Emergency) had had a long history with Sumner through both Joy Division and New Order.{{cn|date=March 2025}} 

In 1990, he worked with former [[Factory Records]] label mates [[A Certain Ratio]], remixing their song "Won't Stop Loving You". He has also recorded tracks with fellow Mancunians [[808 State]] and [[Sub Sub]].{{citation needed|date=July 2018}} Sumner appeared as guest singer and guitarist (alongside [[Primal Scream]]'s [[Bobby Gillespie]]) on [[The Chemical Brothers]]' 1999 album ''[[Surrender (The Chemical Brothers album)|Surrender]]'', on the track "[[Out of Control (The Chemical Brothers song)|Out of Control]]"; and in a 2005 Chemical Brothers show at the [[Brixton Academy]], Sumner appeared live onstage as a special guest on this track.{{cn|date=March 2025}} He has also lent vocals and guitar to a track ("Miracle Cure") on German trance outfit [[Blank & Jones]] 2008 release, "[[The Logic of Pleasure]]",{{cn|date=March 2025}} and appeared on the Primal Scream track "Shoot Speed Kill Light" from their 2000 album ''[[XTRMNTR]]''.{{cn|date=March 2025}} 

He has produced several [[remix]]es for tracks such as [[Technotronic]]'s "[[Rockin' Over the Beat]]" (which was featured in the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III]]'' soundtrack).{{cn|date=March 2025}} He served as a record producer and/or songwriter for other [[Factory Records]] acts, including [[Happy Mondays]], [[Shark Vegas]], [[Abecedarians (band)|Abecedarians]], [[52nd Street (band)|52nd Street]]{{cn|date=March 2025}} and [[Section 25 (band)|Section 25]].