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

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I’d heard of them as they were the young pretenders around Manchester at that time. I had seen ’em as well and thought they were okay. I was in this period of going out all the time and having a good time and they were always there. We were like the old guard that they aspired to be. Indie [before the Roses] was quite grim, quite bookish and quite a stigma that you consumed it at home, alone and feeling miserable. So their debut album redefined indie as something that was quite communal and something that was celebratory. And that’s where they got a lot of their power from; it was tribal, it was a community and it redefined indie. So when bands like Oasis and Kasabian came along they were directly benefiting from this. They were very rooted, authentic and proud of where they came from. Stardom came to them rather than them going to stardom: which was very much part of what the Manchester music scene in the late ’80s was all about. The geography of the city and its suburbs inspired Factory’s visual agenda, and its iconic aesthetic has been reflected throughout the exhibition’s design. The Stone Roses’ is twenty-years-old, and has aged remarkably well. It defined a generation, had a direct impact on subsequent, and stands as a favourite album of every discerning music lover the world over.

It’s a story that the Science and Industry Museum is uniquely placed to tell. Factory Records was hugely influenced by Manchester’s industrial heritage, which we sit at the heart of, and was progressive in its use of digital and electronic technologies, which are again core focuses of the stories we tell here at the museum. It still really saddens me what happened with the Roses, because they were, or they should have been, one of the great pop phenomenons who went on for years and made ten albums, you know what I mean? But then the other way of looking at it is that for a certain period of time they were the best band on the planet, and nothing will ever take that away.Wilson may not have been the most pleasant of men, yet she avoids wrapping herself in a martyr's cloak, admitting that there were faults on both sides. It is a moving testament to their years together, with personal memories constantly weaving in and out of the cut-throat world of showbiz and numerous other dodgy characters and situations. I'm not sure that it was a good idea to include Ian's father's writing at the end of the book. If anything, it should have been included at the start, to set the mood. To see that Ian's talents as a writer were inherited from his father, who shared his same interest for war history. At the end of the book, after all the suffering and heaviness it doesn't feel very fitting to read a war story that is not necessarily connected to Ian's own struggle. But that's just a personal preference. That was the main thing that irked me about the book (and it happens throughout the second half of the book). Um... so feelings are mixed with this one. I definitely expected to like it way more than I actually did.

a b c "24 Hour Party People". 22 June 2002. Archived from the original on 22 June 2002 . Retrieved 27 June 2016. Of the many things he was, he was a kind of historian. He was making up his own history as he went along, setting things in place, anticipating, and making things happen. And very early on, he would talk to me—I'd only known him for a year or two—about, “That's for the book, Paul,” never saying what book was. But it was clear that he had in mind there would be books written about [his story]. And indeed he was right–there were films made about his story [like 24 Hour Party People]. So there was that wonderful sense that he's getting inside your head already from very early on and he's anticipating, “This is going to be big. Something big is going to happen.” He's going to be at the center of it, he needs his people in place to cover it, design it, write about it, photograph it, film it. He's operating a little bit like a TV guy and he's getting his team ready. I was part of his team on and off from a very early stage. It was never said, “You [will write the book]”...but it became me, and that was fair enough because I guess I'd been rehearsing it all my life. However, the planned UK tour in April was cancelled outright, and then in June, they pulled their Glastonbury headline slot. This was blamed on John’s broken collarbone, which he acquired while cycling on holiday. The postponed tour finally resumed in November, wit hall dates selling out in a day. Glory was short-lived: the following April, John Squire left the band – Aziz Ibrahim, also formerly of Simply Red, took his place. Martin, Daniel (9 October 2008). "Tony Wilson's spirit lives on at In the City". The Guardian . Retrieved 20 November 2018. Please note: Use Hearing Protection ended on 3 January 2022. To find out what exhibitions and activities are open today, visit our What’s On section.a b "52nd Street - Chart History: Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs". Billboard. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016 . Retrieved 18 October 2020. Following the Covid-19 pandemic, the museum has unveiled a new opening date for Use Hearing Protection: the early years of Factory Records – a new exhibition that will shine a light on the little-revealed early period of the label and trace new outlines of its famous history. UNITED KINGDOM - JANUARY 01: Photo of Tony WILSON and Anthony H WILSON; Tony Wilson - Factory ... [+] Records head- posed on Set of So It Goes TV Show (Photo by Gems/Redferns) Redferns

Here, for the first time, Lindsay tells the full story of her and Tony's marriage, divorce, and subsequent lifelong connection, giving a candid and moving account of two lives lived in the midst of musical and cultural revolution; of two people who went their separate ways but never truly separated. Through a frank examination of her own memories and those of the people with whom she shared the experience, Reade details pivotal moments in Manchester's history, from the birth of the seventies punk scene to the founding of Factory Records, from the recording of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures to her role in the discovery of the Stone Roses, from the opening of the Hacienda and the subsequent emergence of the 'Madchester' scene to the making of 24 Hour Party People.It was alright, but it didn’t have the vibe or the atmosphere or the simplicity of the first record. A lot of these records you hear them once and they sound sensational, and everyone gives them a five star review, but you don’t want to hear them again. It’s like a fairground ride – you go on it and it’s really exciting and fantastic, but you don’t want to go round it again.

McDonald was replaced by Diane Charlemagne (later lead vocalist with Moby and would go on to bigger UK success with the Urban Cookie Collective). [5] The fact that we’re sitting here talking about it twenty years on… We didn’t think we’d be doing that because it was very much of its time, but it still sounds great; it’s still a great album. Even for generations who never saw The Stone Roses it’s a great album. My daughter’s twenty-two, so obviously she’s too young to have been there first time round, but she still listens to it all the time. The early years were vitally important in setting the scene for everything that followed with Factory, the way that the label and the bands were talked about, how it and they talked about themselves, the ethos and the look of what was produced … nobody at the start would have, in their wildest dreams, believed that we’d still be here talking about it today…” The Joy Division frontman had suffered from severe depression and epilepsy for several years, taking his own life at his home in Macclesfield shortly before the band was due to tour America. Wilson was married twice, first to Lindsay Reade and then to Hilary, with whom he had a son, Oliver, and a daughter, Isabel. In 1990 he started a relationship with Yvette Livesey, a former Miss England and Miss UK, who was his girlfriend until his death in 2007. [17]

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If you talk to somebody who worked with him in television, they've got a very different viewpoint of him from someone who worked with him in music. The common thing is not so much awe but a sort of bewilderment about how this powerful man had ended up in the middle of their lives. “How did he fit it all in?” “What on Earth was in his head?” “Did have a quiet moment?” So whichever way [the interviewees] came in, they knew that he was a dynamic, unpredictable presence–whether they've come from the broadcasting or the music, or a family friend or someone who only knew him by reputation. The title said it all. Expectations were high for the Roses’ follow-up album, and when it finally arrived on December 5th 1994, it fell in the wake of the Britpop wave that washed over Britain. Lead single ‘Love Spreads’ signalled the new direction the music was taking: chunky Zep riffs, gravelly blues, tribal rhythms… The naivité of their debut had given way for an assured yet often indulgent successor. Ultimately, the expectations were just too great a burden. Street - Chart History: Dance Club Songs". Billboard. Archived from the original on 26 April 2016 . Retrieved 18 October 2020.