“Shadowplay” by The Killers

The Killers cut their version of Joy Division's "Shadowplay" in 2007 for Control, the film about the life of Ian Curtis, who wrote the words, and it rolls over the closing credits and turns up on the soundtrack album. Producing themselves, the band swaps the original's cold, clanging dread for a bigger, glossier drive, with Alan Moulder mixing it into a wide-screen rush and Andy Savours, one of its recording engineers alongside Max Dingel and Mark Gray, adding extra guitar.

On stage it became a fixture of the Sam's Town Tour, and it later landed on Sawdust, the band's collection of B-sides and rarities. Not everyone was sold: Rolling Stone reckoned it should have been left in the vaults.

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