· Anthony Wilson dies from cancer
· More Other People/Bands stories
· More Index stories
· Also by davidt
Morrissey-solo
Archive
|
|
|||||||||
posted by
davidt
on Friday August 10 2007, @01:30PM
BlueGirl sends the link:
Anthony Wilson dies from cancer - BBC News Anthony Wilson, the music mogul behind some of Manchester's most successful bands, has died of cancer. The Salford-born entrepreneur, who managed New Order, Joy Division and the Happy Mondays, was diagnosed last year during a routine visit to the doctor. The 57-year-old, who launched Factory records and the Hacienda nightclub, underwent emergency surgery in January to remove a kidney. He passed away on Friday evening in hospital. Doctors recommended he take the drug Sutent after chemotherapy failed to beat the disease, but the NHS refused to fund the £3,500-a-month treatment. However, members of the Happy Mondays and other acts he supported over the years stepped in and started a fund to help pay for it.
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
(1)
|
2
(Morrissey-solo Overload: CommentLimit 50)
(1)
|
2
(Morrissey-solo Overload: CommentLimit 50)
|
|||||||||
|
Tony Wilson (Score:0)
Ben Chill
rip (Score:0)
RIP Tone.
r i p (Score:0)
Sleep Well (Score:1)
Thanks for everything
Rest in Peace..or find a new band in heaven with Rob Gretton and Martin Hannet producing
(User #17804 Info)
Tony Wilson dies (Score:1)
(User #19795 Info)
Rip (Score:0)
RIP Tony. You will be missed.
Tony Wilson (Score:0)
He'll be haunting Moz from the grave, no doubt.
New Dawn Fades (Score:0)
RIP Tony & love to those you've left behind...
Cheers
Steve
Tribute to Tony on BBC2 NOW (Score:1)
Hope the BBC have a Tony Wilson night sometime
(User #17804 Info)
I just heard. (Score:1)
I shed a few tears, literally, here at work.
Damnit Tony.
I'll miss you.
(User #10559 Info | http://www.dolefulorange.com/)
Cancer or a heart attack? (Score:1)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Wilson
It could be wrong. Either way its a sad day.
R.I.P.
(User #15137 Info)
what a shame (Score:1)
(User #16076 Info)
Rest In Peace (Score:0)
Don't ever fade away....... (Score:1)
Whether you like him or not, he was a man that changed music as we know it, not afraid to turn his back on mainstream and follow his gut instinct.
Ok, so everyone claims to have hated him, but stop for a while, he was pushing the "real" music onto impressionable ears long before anybody else dared to, but only in the Granada TV region. For those of you outside the UK, this is mainly northern England, Manchester!!!
We know that Moz was a viewer of And So It Goes, so love him or hate him, he helped pave the way for The Smiths to happen, not to mention many many more.
In this crazy world we live in, it was good to hear that the Mondays, and New Order had stepped in and paid for the drugs and treatment he needed when the good old NHS said they wouldn't. It just goes to show what those who were around him thought of him.
Since hearing the news tonight, I have felt a little odd..
I have always said that after The Smiths, Joy Division are my 2nd favorite band. This morning I put my Closer t-shirt on for work.
Nothing strange I hear you say.
But when I got into the car, I changed the cd as I fancied listening to some Joy Division as I drove to work.
I know this is more than likely a coincidence, but I feel it was an unbeknown fitting tribute to Tony Wilson's last day.
Below I have copied the lyrics to The Eternal by Joy Division. The last song written and recorded before Ian Curtis's suicide. For those of you who are not familiar, it is a very slow, dark song, and some say it was Ian predicting his death. For me it is a good way of showing a lot of peoples feelings today.
RIP Tony Wilson
Procession moves on, the shouting is over,
Praise to the glory of loved ones now gone.
Talking aloud as they sit round their tables,
Scattering flowers washed down by the rain.
Stood by the gate at the foot of the garden,
Watching them pass like clouds in the sky,
Try to cry out in the heat of the moment,
Possessed by a fury that burns from inside.
Cry like a child, though these years make me older,
With children my time is so wastefully spent,
A burden to keep, though their inner communion,
Accept like a curse an unlucky deal.
Played by the gate at the foot of the garden,
My view stretches out from the fence to the wall,
No words could explain, no actions determine,
Just watching the trees and the leaves as they fall.
(User #17857 Info)
Michael Moore is an idiot. (Score:0)
Talk about intellectual dishonesty.
Isn't National health care wonderful? Hey, at least it's not Canada where you can't even open a private practice, and allow people to seek out treatment with their own money.
The irony.
Sad news (Score:1)
A really sad night for Manchester and for music.
(User #14214 Info)
rest well (Score:1)
(User #19796 Info)
Don't really get the connection to Morrissey (Score:0)
The only connections are:
He failed to take Morrissey seriously as a singer and refused to sign his band.
He slagged Morrissey off at every opportunity thereafter.
He came from Manchester.
So does everyone who dies who's slagged Moz off get a news article on this site in future?
I look forward to the Bill Oddie one.
Love him or hate him... (Score:1)
It's hard to explain why this makes me feel so sad - I was never a real fan of the whole madchester thing. Maybe it's because he just didn't deserve to go just yet, and certainly not in the way he did. Nobody does.
A fighter til the end.
RIP Tony.
(User #3503 Info)
Tony the Pony... (Score:0)
Just don't say I didn't warn you
Always nagging big brother
He's only looking out for you
Tony The Pony
Tony The Pony
You're still standing on the corner
Just don't say I didn't warn you
Old and jealous big brother
You had your time and you spent it
Crying
Now, Tony The Pony
Tony The Pony
So, that's what they call you now ?
When you're free outside
So cold and hard and in control
And
There's a free ride on
Tony The Pony
Oh, why do you always wanna stop me
From doing the things in life that make me happy ?
And when I'm outside with friends, laughing loudly
Why do you always wanna stop me ?
Oh, I would never
I would never
But you will carry the can for anyone
The free ride on
Gullible Tony
You're drunker quicker
And you're sicker even quicker
For something heavy is gonna fall on you
Oh
And what do they call you now ?
When you're free outside
So cold and hard and in control
And, oh
There's a free ride on
Fucked-up Tony
I will never say I told you so
Or how I knew that something bad
Would happen to you
I don't wanna say I told you so
Oh, but Tony, I told you so !!!
I told you so
Sad...RIP Tony. (Score:0)
Rest in peace.
shocked (Score:1)
I wonder what Morrissey's [re]action is...it's
not a secret the both of them didnt like eachother [that's writen in honour of Tony, its not the time to qoute all the mud that being throwed beteween them]...and that HE will do
something for Tony's funds
(User #220 Info)
I can't be the only one... (Score:1)
How stupid do I feel now?
He may have said a lot of stupid things and done a lot of futile things and promoted a lot of dross. But he did more in his 57 years than most of us ever will, championed the unchampionable and signed the unsignable.
I'll forgive him for not signing the Smiths because he brough us Joy Division, Hacienda and Shaun Ryder.
Bless you, Tony.
(User #18005 Info)
A great loss (Score:1)
Thank you Tony for everything you've given us.
You will be fondly remembered.
/ Martin S
(User #278 Info | http://www.thefarm.cjb.net/)
rip - Tony (Score:0)
Tony Wilson R.I.P. (Score:1)
He did great things for the Manchester music scene. Will watch "24 Hour Party People" today in his honour.
(User #16877 Info)
Link to '06 Interview clip: Wilson on Morrissey (Score:1)
(remove spaces in link above)
Interesting that this interview is the last thing i remember about Tony Wilson in regards to the world of Morrissey. At the time, I was pretty shocked to hear those brutal words about Moz! But who really knows what happened behind the scenes with these paople? Maybe his words were justified, maybe they weren't... maybe they were true, maybe not.
All i know is that i always thought that Tony Wilson was a really interesting man, and his thoughtfulness was always a treat. He was a genuine Smiths fan in the early days, and although i couldn't find the links anymore to some of those old interviews, i always enjoyed Tony's enthusiasm about The Smiths in those formative years.
(User #1308 Info | http://www.facebook.com/djceremony)
Thank you for everything you did! (Score:0)
--Urban
TV tributes (Score:1)
Then,a quick flick to ITV news:a tiny item saying he'd passed away BUT the best part was the clip that they showed was Tony talking in front of a poster showing Steve Coogan as Tony Wilson with the word TWAT over it:must be the first time TWAT has featured on "News At Ten"
A GREAT TONY MOMENT
(User #17804 Info)
Bye Tony (Score:0)
Tony Wilson (Score:0)
And Robert Mugabe lives on. God is a funny old cove..
(User #15812 Info)
Thank you (Score:0)
-the Swine
NHS Sucks! (Score:0)
Tony Wilson signed Joy Division? (Score:0)
RIP Tony.
Big Ben Falls Silent ! (Score:1)
http://news.uk.msn.com/Article.aspx?cp-documentid
(User #17804 Info)
Everyones Always Looking for Approval (Score:0)
I spose the reason why he has so many criticisms on here was because he was quite eccentric and totally single minded. in a world where everyone is always looking for approval, its great that Tony had the balls to go it alone.
My Dad is about 57, I can't imagine him going for a good few years yet, and my thoughts are with Tony's family and friends at this time.
Crawling out of the woodwork (Score:1)
(User #14229 Info)
Andy Rourke speaks!! (Score:0)
Andy Rourke sums it up really well! Andy Rourke fights for the cure to cancer in his "Versus Cancer" concerts and Andy Rourke was a friend of Tony Wilson. from, Andy
to die is sad. (Score:1)
"And Yet I Die"
by Marilyn
I see the stars sparkling so bright,
Within the moon kissed sky.
I hear the lark so sweetly sing,
Amidst the morning dawn.
I smell the flower full in bloom,
And see their royal pomp.
And yet some place so deep within,
I'm shrouded and I'm closed.
The brilliance there I can't see,
In mists of misery.
Enshrined inside, unable thus,
To touch the warmth without.
I gaze upon this passion spent,
And yet . . . Inside I die.
I loved this.. It just makes me think and try a little harder in life...
It takes guts to make it out alright.
and the help of many shows how this man tried his best.. That take a smile from me...and I guess it is best to go with a smile..If Possible of course..
wow we all shall die.....
Not nice.. Especially when you have come to be much more wiser and smarter...
Then We die............
RIP?
hmmm
I wonder.
thank you.
(User #1865 Info)
Andy Rourke and Tony Wilson (Score:0)
Tony Wilson RIP
Tony Wilson the intellectual (Score:0)
Only Morrissey was on the same intellectual wave lenth although Morrissey didn't go to Cambridge Uni!!
The decent end of the east lancs (Score:0)
He never failed to insult Liverpool at any opportunity but I put it down to him discovering joy division and not the beatles
we still loved ya tony as you know
a stalwart for the north west
liverpool included
This is sad news (Score:0)
RIP
Sheridan
RIP Tony Wilson (Score:1)
RIP
(User #19804 Info)
Damn! (Score:1)
(User #5987 Info)
tony dying (Score:1)
i just showed some friends of mine
'24 hour party people' on friday night
then one of them told me he died
weird man
weird
poor tony
he deserved better
what a horrible world
huh?
oh well...
(User #15856 Info)
Someone Waved Goodbye: FAC 2365051 (Score:0)
The inverview itself was designed to push the medical establishment into thinking about the availability of cancer drugs for all. Tony gave his views about how such drugs should be available to all. Despite the fact that he'd found a group of friends who could pay for his treatment, he made the point that others were not in the same position and that something needed to be done about it.
It is hard to comprehend and believe that, after such a profilic period of studio recording, record production and releases from Manchester, there is no musical activity/output from FACTORY. The Hacienda, once the envy of muscial nightlife the world over, is now a apartment block; it's most famous band, New Order, are now in 2007 heavily engaged in public slanging matches discussing if/when/whether 'New Order'can actually still exist in 2007 with/without Peter Hook in the band. And it has been said before that Tony Wilson became much more famous for his extravagences, contractual disasters and passions for expensive furniture and oestentatious design than for FACTORY records.
Obviously, many people have there own views of Tony and his contributions to music, to life, to culture and not just to life and culture in Manchester and the North of England. I found some comments on the BBC website and i feel those nearby are more suited to putting forward a public response in this situation, providing some stiring, or stirling, memories of Tony Wilson the man:
He never had the most likeable public persona, and the inadequacies of the management of Factory are well documented but lets be fair, we have so much to thank Tony for. He was unashamedly single-mided in his promotion of both Manchester and the region, someone who made you feel "Yeah, there's someone in the public eye who feels the same way as me". From Joy Division/New Order, Mondays, Hac, ACR, to Granada Reports, And So it Goes and Remote Control, like him, or not, or both, he will be missed.
Chris Latham, Manchester
Saturday, 11 August, 2007
I had the privilege of working with Tony on the live Granada Which Way Careers programmes 1987-62. Above all I remember his genuine passion that young people should make the most of their talents & be supported in doing that. Tony agreed to host a debate on Girls Into Science & Engineering for my wife at Salford Uni.
He was the only presenter to refuse a fee. His PA said -if it's for young people he'll always do it for free. Send him a booktoken...it'll make his day! A lovely man;now a Legend.
Bill Rogers, Bolton
Saturday, 11 August, 2007
I was lucky enough to have had lunch with Tony several years ago at the Rain Bar in Manchester, I am involved with music and the internet and Tony was excited about the internet and how it would effect the music industry. He informed me at 28 I had little chance of becoming a signed music artist, as I also was the singer in a band, his actual words were "revolutions don't begin when your 28, more like when you are 18", he did have a point, and shortly after this stopped singing. God bless Tone!
Bruce Thomas, Lancashire
Saturday, 11 August, 2007
I am devastated that Tony has died. I wanted him to live for ever and become the Elder of Manchester. My Tony Wilson memory is this: in the 1970s, during the days of the Russell Club, I ran Rock Against Racism with my friend Debbiee Golt. Only we know the support that Tony gave to young British black bands in those days. His passion was punk, ours was reggae. But he helped generously and and never wanted thanks or credit.
WE WANT A STATUE TO THIS GREAT MAN IN THIS GREAT CITY.
Maggie Turner, Manchester
Saturday, 11 August, 2007
I was his warm-up man on the Granada TV programme "Up Front" along with my c
Anthony H - They broke the mould, long since. (Score:0)
Truth is, this man made Manchester cool. Someone flawed and magficent has passed on and on this earth, we shall not see his like again. They broke the mould, long since. There can be no higher praise. Heaven help heaven now.
MIKE HINC
Anthony Wilson and Rob Gretton (Score:0)
Martin Hannett (Score:0)