Keanu Reeves turned a Peter Hook&The Light show at San Francisco’s Warfield into a night nobody in that room will forget. On Sept. 21, the actor walked out to introduce the Joy Division and New Order co-founder, hugging him onstage before telling the crowd they were about to hear“the music we all love from then, today and tomorrow.”Then Hook returned the favor, dedicating“Love Will Tear Us Apart”to Reeves, who has publicly called the 1980 track his desert-island song. Cameras caught him dancing enthusiastically from a private box while it played.
The timing was no accident. Reeves was in town because his own band, Dogstar, played the Fillmore the following night. The group, which also features vocalist-guitarist Bret Domrose and drummer-actor Robert Mailhouse, is riding a comeback moment: their latest album“All In Now”and its title single gave them their first Billboard songs chart appearance in more than 25 years.
There’s a bigger story here too. Peter Hook will be inducted into the Rock&Roll Hall of Fame this fall as part of the class of 2026, cementing a legacy that started with Joy Division and carried through New Order. So one weekend in San Francisco gave us a movie star fanboying over a bass legend, and a bass legend getting his flowers. What’s the one song you’d want dedicated to you live onstage?
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