Mr Manchester and the Factory Girl: The Story of Tony and Lindsay Wilson

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During the weeks when they both knew he was slipping away, they ended up sleeping alongside each other every Saturday night, something she likens in a happy-sad way to being like putting on old comfortable slippers that, despite lying unworn for many years, seemed as familiar as always.

Curtis was unusually intuitive, sensitive and empathic as well as being exceptionally intelligent and gifted, and as far as I'm concerned, these attributes explain his perception and ability to look to the future without need for recourse to suggestions of supernatural powers.The many statements from his mother, Doreen Curtis (his father Kevin sadly died before this book was written), and his younger sister Carole, and from his early schoolfriends help to paint a rounded picture of the person Ian as well as the poet and musician. Enraged, the band went to their offices and proceeded to empty tins of blue and white paint over the walls, the furniture, the boss, his girlfriend and their cars. Wilson was a partner in the annual In the City [11] and Interactive City [12] music festivals and industry conferences, and also F4 Records, the fourth version of Factory Records, which was set up to be an online distributor for Wilson's long term protégé Vini Reilly, of the Durutti Column.

John’s uncle had a printer at his factory, so in a very organic way the fanzine grew, no theme, it was just a collection of random images, doodles, poetry… it didn’t have any message—political, post-punk, or otherwise—it was just a collection of bits and bobs.Lindsay introduced her then husband Tony Wilson to a number of people on Manchester’s music scene, in particular Tosh Ryan, who headed up independent punk record label Rabid Records. Anxious to release more material, 52nd Street became restless and found themselves caught in a dilemma.