Newsnight Tony Wilson Obit / Discussion

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• BU

  @Bungadin2845 · 7 years ago

  RIP Britain’s most interesting man.

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• DI

  @diskochimp · 12 years ago

  "Metaphysical Mayor of Manchester." :)

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• GA

  @Gavb66 · 5 years ago

  Worked with Tony in 2000 and 2001, Joy Division are my favourite group so there was common ground, but he was just brilliant to work with and a lovely man. In 2003, I was in the news room at Granada and he noticed me as he was called into the studio to read the news, he ignored the call and came over to speak to  me, ask how I was etc. They said 'Tony you're on in sixty seconds' and he was going 'ok, hang on'. Always remember him for that. What a fantastic man and a true hero of mine.

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• RI

  @RichardCalladine-u1o · 8 months ago

  Went in 2010 to Southern Cemetery to pay my respects..spent half an hour remembering and weeping...as i left i heard Tony saying thank you for coming...this man changed my life....RIP TONY IAN MARTIN ROB MARK....THANK YOU ALL...LOVE TO ALL!

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• MA

  @matty7dream1 · 5 years ago

  It's a shame Tony wasn't present participating in this discussion of himself. He would have told them all they had missed the point. Not because they had, but just to stir it up a bit.

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• RA

  @rayvaughan3197 · 8 years ago

  &quot;Arguably started the cultural regeneration of Manchester&quot; ? Who could argue with the fact??.... &nbsp;without doubt he did ...as Morley said, it was like he was intentionally putting all the pieces together via music via art via tv and radio via writing via attitudes...all the ingredients that bring a generation together and in doing that,shaping and changing everything! The man was a genius! <br><br>&quot;St Anthony St Anthony please come round,something has been lost and cannot be found.....&quot;<br><br>Anthony H Wilson R.i.P

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• AD

  @adrianwhiteley4790 · 12 years ago

  I liked him very much and named my son after him.

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• MA

  @manuelgoncalves5853 · 9 years ago

  Tony Wilson died too soon. I agree he had so much more to offer. Great personality and essential in pop culture. RIP

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• JA

  @Jabba_Hut · 13 years ago

  You will always be remembered Tony <br><br>Long live the north!

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• MR

  @MrDazw72 · 10 years ago

  Manchester had new life injected into it and is now a city to be proud of because of Mr Anthony H Wilson&apos;s endeavours in music and culture.

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• VA

  @valley_robot · 7 years ago

  Met him once , gave him my bands demo tape, I thought he’d just throw it in the bin , he didn’t ,he invited me in to his hotel foyer for a cup of tea , he left a message on my mums phone saying keep doing what I’m doing . Nothing but love and respect for Anthony H , wonderful man

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• SI

  @silverapples75 · 6 years ago

  With incredible generosity he let me do my work experience shadowing him for a week in &apos;89. Looking back that&apos;s staggering. Day one was at Granada, lunch with Wilson and Craig Charles. Along the week we were flashing around town in his Jag, to the Haç, Grand Central Design, Factory on Palatine Rd before he jetted off to NYC for In The City. He walked me into a newspaper that was about at the time, Uptown, and got me a job doing music listings. He asked my opinion of the Stone Roses, being a smock and parralels wearing 14 year old manc I obviously loved them and told him so. &apos;Fucking rubbish&apos; he replied before putting a demo tape on and declaring it the best new band in MCR. It was Northside! Later on, just weeks after he died, I moved into the old Factory office on Palatine Rd, now a flat. Erasmus lived there and still does, along with a lot of ghosts. The postboxes in the lobby, once shelves for stock LPs are still labelled - BUMMED - HAPPY MONDAYS etc The last time I saw Wilson he was DJing at HOME, a short lived Factory nighclub, maybe &apos;97. I went over to say hiya and thank him for his generosity those years ago. &apos;Hi Tony...&apos; He looked at me with absolute disdain and said &apos;Oh, fuck off!&apos; 😂<br>Amazing people, incredible to have seen a glimpse of it.

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