The Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant collaborated on two tracks on their debut eponymous album, providing vocals. In 1989, Sumner joined up with former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr to form Electronic. Sumner and Morris are the only members to be part of every lineup.

Through a series of splits and reformations, the band has released ten studio albums. 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. Sumner and remaining band members Peter Hook and Stephen Morris started a new band named New Order, joined by keyboardist Gillian Gilbert in October 1980. In May 1980, after the suicide of its lead singer, Ian Curtis, Joy Division disbanded. Widely considered one of the most influential bands of the era, Sumner was lead guitarist (his main guitars were a Gibson SG and a custom Shergold Masquerader), as well as playing electronic keyboards and made his first vocal appearance on record singing the chorus of 'Walked in Line' on the Warsaw album. 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. Sumner was a founding member of Joy Division, formed at Salford in 1976. Sumner with New Order in NYC, 2005 Joy Division Sumner was educated at Salford Grammar School, before joining Manchester-based animation studio Stop Frame (later Cosgrove Hall Films) as an animator (credited as Bernard Dickin) on Jamie and the Magic Torch.

Sumner was born on 4 January 1956 in Broughton, Lancashire, England. He continues to record and perform with the latest iteration of New Order, which reformed in 2011. New Order became active again from 1998 through 2006, after which he returned to a more traditional rock context with the band Bad Lieutenant.

He formed Electronic with Johnny Marr in the late 1980s as a creative outlet outside of New Order, which continued after New Order went on hiatus in 1993. His complex electronic compositions became less guitar-driven and more focused on electronic keyboards, synthesizers, and programming throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Following lead singer Ian Curtis's death, the remaining members of Joy Division formed New Order with Sumner taking on lead vocal duties. He began his career playing guitar and keyboards for Joy Division. Sumner was an early force in several areas, including the post-punk, synthpop, and techno music scenes, as well as their various related genres, and was an early influence on the Manchester music scene that presaged the ' Madchester' movement of the late 1980s centred on Factory Records and The Haçienda club in Manchester. He is a founding member of the bands Joy Division, New Order, Electronic and Bad Lieutenant.

Bernard Sumner (born 4 January 1956) is an English singer, musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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