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November 02, 2009

Tony Wilson For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame...

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I know he doesn’t care because he is dead but why the hell is Tony Wilson not in the rock and roll hall of fame? Factory Records were the most important record company of the late 1970s and early 1980s. If all they had done is recorded Joy Division and New Order it would have been enough. But between the manchester club the Hacienda and hand shake deals with all his artists, Happy Mondays, A Certain Ratio, all of them, he made a different kind of label-band relationship, one that could well be the blueprint for all the Saddlecreeks, Sub Pops and Matadors of he world.



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