Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson

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A poignant chronicle of love and loss, Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl also presents an incisive portrait of the unique individuals and often fraught relationships that shaped the life of a modern legend." Book launch I found myself digging into files I hadn’t read in years, some in decades as I prepared to contribute to a new Postmedia podcast, called True Crime Byline. The boxes and scrapbooks in the Leader-Post archives are etched with a single word: Thatcher.

The main square of the HOME/First Street development in Manchester, which opened in 2015, is named Tony Wilson Place. [29] On a personal note, Wilson first heard about you through your fanzine when you were living in Manchester in the 1970s. And one day, Wilson paid a visit to your home while you were out. Your mother was so impressed to be in the presence of a local celebrity. Had he sooner quit his broadcasting career at Granada, would have Factory Records and the Hacienda have survived a little bit longer instead of them shutting down by the end of the 1990s? As he often said, he was born at the right time, to be at the right age when a lot of this happens. So there he is, 1968–he's 18, beginning university, absolutely head in the right place to be taking opportunity. He often said sometimes he wasn’t necessarily believing in the philosophy of Situationism, but he liked the slogans and the energy. He was a provocateur from a very early age. He loved debates at school, he loved arguing with you. Even if he agreed with you, he likes an argument, he'd like to drill down into something and find out whether it was of use to him. In memory of Wilson, a poem was written by Mike Garry and broadcast on the BBC. [30] Further reading [ edit ]

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When people made it they moved to London. He didn't, but he came very close. He got a job with the Nationwide news programme and was on the motorway when he changed his mind, came home and called Granada." She said the only word to sum him up was `extraordinary'. Most’s art, was really all about making and selling outright pop records rather than the little more serious songs, Tony felt they were worthy of. I decide it's a good thing that I don't see Sean try to capture Ian's incandescent dance. It's absolutely vital to the making of the film that Sean doesn't look like a twit performing as Curtis, and not important at all. Coogan's three Wilson wigs will make the thing look like Confession of a Pop Svengali and ruin everything, or just add to the general anarchic gaiety. John Allison, who worked upstairs at Garner’s Mintball, felt surrounded by an array of “dysfunctional characters. Lots of shouting. My hair turned white with stress.”

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To tell this story, Morley must take on Wilson’s vernacular and, in so doing, open himself to the grief, onerousness, frivolity, and sheer weight of taking on such a task. For it’s not just a book about Tony Wilson, but it’s also a book about the ways the protagonist shaped Morley himself, turning him into the very writer capable of creating this postmodern tour de force.