madchester Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/madchester/ Thu, 05 Nov 2020 19:00:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png madchester Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/madchester/ 32 32 So It Goes… Tony Wilson 1950-2007 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/so-it-goes-tony-wilson-1950-2007-20070810/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/so-it-goes-tony-wilson-1950-2007-20070810/#respond Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:26:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=12004 Estimable Mancunian tastemaker, entrepreneur and one-time Factory Records impresario, Tony Wilson has died. The 57-year-old died of a heart attack while undergoing treatment for kidney cancer. Wilson had been diagnosed with cancer during Christmas of 2006 and had been struggling with the disease ever since.

Wilson’s risk-taking and visionary mid-70s TV program “So It Goes” (he was one of, it not the first person to ever put the Sex Pistols on TV) helped set the stage for Manchester’s post-punk scene and his Factory Records aided and abetted the likes of Joy Division, New Order, the Happy Mondays, A Certain Ratio and the skeletal and underappreciated, Vini Reilly, aka, the Durutti Column.

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