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

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There is no doubt that he continued to feel affection for her, but he was tortured by conflict, because in 1979, he met and fell in love with Belgian Annik Honore', who interviewed Joy Division and travelled to their gigs. The masses had come to see The Stone Roses headline their own massive outdoor concert, following DJ sets from the likes of Frankie Knuckles and Dave Haslam, and cement their status as a certified phenomenon.

One aspect I found somewhat distracting throughout the narrative was Reade's continual habit of fast-forwarding to the last few months of his life, when in the rest of the chapter she had been discussing events which took place ten or twenty years previously, then back to the story. They showed, by embracing the punk ethos, that you didn’t need technical efficiency to be a good band – great songwriting and a real belief in what you do was their key to success.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. Linder had a loose connection to Factory Records through Peter Saville, who was a fellow art student at Manchester Polytechnic.

Likewise Lindsay Reade - she was married to Tony Wilson during the Joy Division era, but she was Manchester based and I was in London, so I'd never heard of her before reading this book. John Squire formed The Seahorses (an anagram of ‘He hates Roses’, incidentally) but they split after only one album. Then I remember him taking out this fucking huge wad of notes and him peeling off what he presumably thought was the right amount of money, and I shoved it in my pocket because I was embarrassed ecause it didn’t feel nice doing it like that. Street's first release on Factory Records in 1982 was "Look into My Eyes," backed with "Express", produced by Donald Johnson.In any case, Reade read Curtis's palm twice, stating the first time he would live to 80 years, and the second time that he would not commit suicide, discrediting proof (if it were needed) of psychic phenomena. He developed a love of literature and language, ignited by a performance of Hamlet at Stratford upon Avon.