Aug. 11th, 2007

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And so, farewell Tony Wilson. He’s five years older than me, you know. Or, rather, was.

The “tributes” to him were rather strained, indicating that perhaps a man with such unshakable self-belief is unlikely to have made a great deal of close friends. In a way, he was a bit like a Branson with a different kind of obsession. Certainly his historical attitude to money meant that, when he needed it near the end of his life to pay for cancer drugs, he didn’t have it. Good credit to the Happy Mondays and (I hear) the guys in New Order for helping him out there.

I actually remembered Wilson from So It Goes, so it came as a some surprise when he re-emerged more than a decade later as the driving force behind Factory. Gawd bless him. He might have had no self-doubt and no business sense, but he kept the faith. The world needs more like him.

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