Tony Wilson

Anthony (Tony) Wilson (born February 20, 1950) is a British record label and nightclub manager and journalist for Granada Television, who made him anchor of the rock programme So It Goes. Wilson saw the Sex Pistols at the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall, in June, 1976, an experience which he has described as "nothing short of an epiphany" http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,6737,661059,00.html. He booked them for the second series, probably the first television showing of the then-revolutionary British strand of punk rock. He later founded the record label Factory Records and the Haçienda nightclub in Manchester.

External links

• "Return to the Hacienda" - BBC News article, dated Friday, April 5, 2002
• http://www.theblurb.com.au/Issue27/24HrPP.htm
• Fourth Time Lucky - Spike Magazine interview with Tony Wilson about F4, the latest incarnation of Factory Records
• Anthony H Wilson - Excerpts from the Interview with Eyewitness in Manchester 30 April 1998