Fact #109185
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Anthony H. Wilson (Tony Wilson) born in Hope Hospital, Salford, UK. Wilson will found Manchester's influential Factory Records and co-found The Hacienda nightclub.
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Tony Wilson : My grandfather was German, he came here in 1901. First he went to America, then came back to Salford. We're the great immigrant city - foreigners are welcomed, it's so hospitable to outsiders, they thrive, and do so well, they become part of the city. Who built Whalley Range? The Germans, they called it 'Little Germany'.
My family had jewellers shops on Regent Rd, in Cadishead and Eccles. At age 5 we moved to Marple to be in the country, my mother thought it would be a better place to bring me up, but I kept in contact with Salford - we had shops there, and I went all the time. When I was 11 I got a scholarship to De La Salle in Salford, and I went every day by train And bus to De La Salle in Salford between 61 and 68
I remember Manchester as a very groovy city, a club city. I remember my mum And dad coming home with the programme of West Side Story. We were the pre-run of the West End of London in those days. My mother used to go into Manchester, go for a coffee, meet friends, go to the Midland...
The whole Catholic grammar school thing is amazing, the whole of Factory is Catholic grammar school. At De La Salle, half the intake was clever boys from Oldham, Stalybridge, St Helens, from the diaspora, and half of them were the local lads, Salford heavies, they were the ones going out to the clubs, and we'd hear all the stories...
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Steve Coogan (comic actor who portrayed Wilson in the film 24 Hour Party People) : Tony Wilson is like a left-wing, avant-garde Alan Partridge, although Partridge is a much bigger idiot and isn't trying to push the frontiers of anything. And I like Wilson for many of the same reasons I liked Alan Partridge. Wilson is very flawed, but very human, and there is something brave and amateurish about what he does.
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My family had jewellers shops on Regent Rd, in Cadishead and Eccles. At age 5 we moved to Marple to be in the country, my mother thought it would be a better place to bring me up, but I kept in contact with Salford - we had shops there, and I went all the time. When I was 11 I got a scholarship to De La Salle in Salford, and I went every day by train And bus to De La Salle in Salford between 61 and 68
I remember Manchester as a very groovy city, a club city. I remember my mum And dad coming home with the programme of West Side Story. We were the pre-run of the West End of London in those days. My mother used to go into Manchester, go for a coffee, meet friends, go to the Midland...
The whole Catholic grammar school thing is amazing, the whole of Factory is Catholic grammar school. At De La Salle, half the intake was clever boys from Oldham, Stalybridge, St Helens, from the diaspora, and half of them were the local lads, Salford heavies, they were the ones going out to the clubs, and we'd hear all the stories...
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Steve Coogan (comic actor who portrayed Wilson in the film 24 Hour Party People) : Tony Wilson is like a left-wing, avant-garde Alan Partridge, although Partridge is a much bigger idiot and isn't trying to push the frontiers of anything. And I like Wilson for many of the same reasons I liked Alan Partridge. Wilson is very flawed, but very human, and there is something brave and amateurish about what he does.