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‘I used to say some people make money and some make history – which is very funny until you find you can’t afford to keep yourself alive.’
– Tony Wilson
Tony Wilson is dead. And despite his well publicised illness, it’s still a shock akin to the loss of John Peel. To suffer a heart attack while recovering from cancer seems particularly cruel.
Tony Wilson was Manchester’s myth maker, nourishing the city’s popular culture and giving people like me a reason to make Manchester home. He provided the intellect that rooted the city’s cultural resurgence, ensuring that the new, regenerated Manchester takes pride and builds upon its industrial heritage: all that Peter Saville encapsulated as Original-Modern.
