音速之旅

This is rave culture,the beatification of the beat,the dance age,this is the moment when even the white man starts dancing.welcome to Manchester.

丫连泡妞的时候所使用的词都无人可及:

Flirting is a very natual process,she’s aware of it,I am being postmodern,before it was fashionable.

有人大老远的从伦敦来到曼彻斯特来购买他的FACTORY唱片公司,却惊讶于TONY居然和所有的艺人都没有任何合约在身时:

Factory is not a company,we are an experiment in human nature,you’re labouring under the misapprehension…the freedom to fuck off.

GOODBYE RAVE CULTURE,GOODBYE FACTORY,GOODBYE 24HOURS PARTY PEOPLE,GOODBYE,MANCHESTER!

以下是TONY和我的老朋友,住在柏林的MARK REEDER表达对TONY的怀念之词.

Anthony Wilson RIP (by Mark Reeder)

Factory Records founder Tony Wilson died last Friday from a heart  

attack, aged 57, several months after he underwent treatment for  

kidney cancer. Skrufff man-in-Berlin Mark Reeder knew Tony for over  

30 years and met up with him for the last time several weeks ago on a  

trip to Manchester.

“Although I saw him only recently, I was still very upset to hear of  

Tony Wilson’s death. I first met Tony when I was a teenager working  

in Virgin’s small Lever Street record shop (before the Megastore  

days). He was a regular late Saturday afternoon customer in our  

little music microcosm. As I got to know his musical tastes, I would  

always keep the newest, most obscure and undergroundier records aside  

for him.

When punk emerged, he was especially enthusiastic about helping to  

develop the new Manchester music scene and without his support and  

vision, many bands of this era would never have been heard. So many  

have to thank him for giving them the opportunity to perform to a  

wider TV audience (eg The Sex Pistols and Blondie made their first UK  

TV debuts on his show) and even more, for leading the way for  

credible and uncompromising music to follow.

When I moved to Germany in the late 70s, I became Factory Records’  

German representative and Tony always affectionately referred to me  

as "our man in Berlin" (which I always thought was hilarious).Tony  

was certainly not a businessman, he was a visionary and an idealist.

He was equally loved and hated by many because he hunted controversy  

and was so consciously pretentious and he always spoke his mind. He  

was a highly intelligent man with a scathing sense of humour and a  

insatiable passion for music and art. I will always have precious  

memories of him as a generous and entertaining friend who was always  

fun to be with. Undoubtedly, I owe Tony my career in music and I will  

miss him very, very much.”

If they do decide to build a monument to him in Manchester, they  

should build a arts school and call it the "Tony Wilson  Arts-Theatre  

School" i think he would've found it very amusing that the scholars  

could then say they were T.W.A.T.S.”

Mark Reeder, Flesh Records, Skrufff Berlin.

Tony Wilson Bites:

"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." (BBC)

Tony Wilson, on discovering he had insufficient money to pay for anti- 

cancer treatment.

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"I strongly suspect his ambition was to become Prime Minister of  

Manchester." (Sunday Times)

New Order drummer/ programmer Stephen Morris.

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We used to make fun of Wilson and the mantle of grandeur he often  

assumed, but we knew that in his idiosyncratic and subversive way he  

was a great and important figure. Good things happened because he was  

around." (Guardian)

Manchester journalist/ TV personality Paul Morley

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"I would still be working at the post office if it wasn't for Tony.  

He was the one that gave working kids like me and Shaun (his brother,  

the band's lead singer) their chance." (BBC)

Paul Ryder, Happy Mondays.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Wilson