Electronic Music 411 - R.I.P Tony Wilson - Joy division, New Order, Tony wilson

"Doctors recommended he take the drug Sutent after chemotherapy failed to beat the disease, but the NHS refused to fund the Ł3,500-a-month treatment."
bloody hell

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08/10/07 + ignatius

fuckers.

well. RIP mr wilson.

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08/10/07 + bsr

what? fuck! - the guy could be an arse occasionally but he's a legend on the music scene in manchester and always stayed involved with promoters and the labels, each year he did the opening speech at the inthecity festival planning meeting where you get a room with every promoter in manchester eyeing each other up and trying to look the coolest and he always seemed really grounded, he never grew up or got tired of music, he stayed young and interested - he really was passionate about manchesters music and how it could help the city.

a sad day. rip.

08/10/07 + Zanf

Same age as my mum when she died and of the same shit. No way to go at all.

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08/10/07 + replicalex

Very sad news. He didnt write the songs, but he believed in the bands that would shape my love of music.
Without him I might never have heard Joy Division / New Order and for that alone he deserves my gratitude and respect.

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08/10/07 + strangus

Wow, he will be missed. Anyone see 24hr party people?

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08/10/07 + astroboy

shit.
i kinda enjoyed 24h party people, but i'm REALLY looking forward to corbijn's joy division movie !

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08/10/07 + nightowl

i liked 24 hr. party people. he was the main guy in that? was that really him or an actor playing him?

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08/10/07 + reehc

shit a sad day indeeed

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08/10/07 + Hikikomori

god help curtis now!

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08/10/07 + thehydrax

I didn't like this blog. RIP Mr Wilson, I hope god does look like you, with a big spliff

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08/11/07 + airliner

nightowl: that was steve coogan playing tony wilson, although the real wilson had a cameo early on in the movie (as the janitor in the bathroom scene, during the first half-hour or so...he turns to the camera and says something like "that's not how i remember it happening").

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08/11/07 + Tenine

Wow, what a shock! A sad one, too!

I'm not sure if I will feel a little different when I see Control now - I'm looking forward to that.

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edited: Aug 11 2007 + quip

link
that interview is in hulme, which, if you believe the press,is now a violent gang land.

link

he was like the uncle that fed you tapes of cool stuff. he was
sometimes a dick, but i think that made him even more endearing.
sorry he had to go.

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08/13/07 + Analog

quip said: "hulme, which, if you believe the press,is now a violent gang land."

I live in hulme, i'm always packing a piece.

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