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Anthony Howard Wilson (20 February 1950 – 10 August 2007) was a British record label owner, radio and television presenter, nightclub manager and impresario, and a journalist for Granada Television, the BBC and Channel 4.
Aug 9, 2017 · Thursday marks 10 years since the death of Tony Wilson - a man whose unconventional approach to just about everything saw his place cemented in the history of Manchester’s development as a city...
Apr 11, 2012 · Tony Wilson, the music mogul behind some of Britain's most successful bands, died of cancer in hospital last night. He was 57. The entrepreneur, who managed Manchester bands such as New Order,...
Aug 6, 2024 · Tony Wilson was a British music industry entrepreneur who, as cofounder of Factory Records and founder of the Hacienda nightclub in Manchester, was the ringleader of the so-called “Madchester” postpunk music and club scene of the 1980s and early ’90s.
Aug 13, 2015 · On the eighth anniversary of his death, ‘St Anthony: An Ode To Anthony H Wilson’, has been released in tribute to the late Factory Records boss.
Aug 17, 2007 · Tony Wilson, the television journalist and music impresario who died of a heart attack a week ago at age 57, inspired the only great rock biopic ever made.
To many people Tony Wilson was a bigmouth Mancunian, brash music impresario and jobbing television presenter. But to the generation that came of age in the late 20th century he was a guide to...
