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==Biography==
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|author=Lindsay Reade
|title=Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson
|rating=4
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=Mr Manchester, as Tony Wilson came to be known, could have been the next John Humphrys. Instead he ended up becoming the next Malcolm McLaren – or, perhaps, a far less successful version of Richard Branson. After graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in English he became a trainee news reporter for ITN, and for much of his life he worked as an anchorman for regional evening news programmes. Yet he is less remembered for this than for his championship of alternative music and punk rock, founding of Factory Records and involvement with the Hacienda Club. Although he loved the Beatles and folk music in general, he disliked much of the contemporary music scene until he saw the Sex Pistols live in the summer of 1976.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859654567</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Bevis Hillier
