My Life With Rock N' Roll People
Reading Mike Garry’s poem 'St Anthony: An Ode to Anthony H Wilson' brings back memories… It was 19 years ago today that we lost Anthony H Wilson, better known as Tony Wilson, TV presenter and journalist for Granada Television, part of the ITV network. At least that’s what he was up to when I first met him in 1978. Tony…
“Ian’s death was an unbelievable marketing campaign,” according to one of the speakers at the recent launch of the revised edition of Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records by James Nice (Faber). James was on a panel which also included Peter Saville, the graphic designer who co-founded Factory Records with TV presenter Tony Wilson in 1978, and Lesley Gilbert,…
