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Tony Wilson

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So It Goes: A TV breakthrough or tubular balls?

Review by Mick Farren, New Musical Express, 17 July 1976

IT'S A LITTLE weird when you see something that is obviously well intentioned, is very close to what you and your own personal colleagues and ...

Tony Wilson: One Man and a Music Factory

Interview by James Brown, Sounds, 28 February 1987

In the first of a special series on the men and women behind the scenes of the music business JAMES BROWN talks to TONY WILSON, ...

Summer 1990: The Madness

Report and Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 14 April 1990

With The Stone Roses at Spike Island, the Mondays at Glastonbury and numerous other raves, the summer of 1990 should be one to remember. John ...

Division On: Joy Division

Interview by Len Brown, New Musical Express, 19 May 1990

"FUNNY. I WAS IN the car with Barney the other day and I just hit Unknown Pleasures into the CD. And Barney shouted, 'Get that ...

Home entertainment: Tony Wilson on Factory Records

Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 29 March 2002

The man behind Manchester's chaotic Factory Records, Joy Division and Happy Mondays takes us through his own back catalogue ...

Tony Wilson, 1950-2019

Obituary by Paul Morley, The Guardian, 13 August 2007

Record label boss and broadcaster with twin passions: music and Manchester. ...

A Fitting Headstone For Tony Wilson's Grave

Comment by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 26 October 2010

A memorial headstone for Factory Records founder Tony Wilson has been unveiled in a Manchester cemetery this week. ...

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