Tony Wilson who formed Factory Records has died of kidney cancer aged 57. He started off his career on TV as a news reader on Granada Reports and also presented So It Goes which gave The Sex Pistols their television debut, but he will be best known for his influence on popular music and culture throughout the 1980’s .
Factory Records, formed with Alan Erasmus in 1978, had many well known artists and acts on their label including Joy Division, New Order, OMD and The Happy Mondays. Factory Records and New Order also opened The Haçienda (FAC51) nightclub in 1982 which became a legend with the ‘rave-ecstacy’ generation in the late eighties.
RIP
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