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Tony Wilson's Record Collection

andrew d

andrew d

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https://thevinylfactory.com/features/tony-wilson-record-collection/

Since his death, the record collection belonging to Tony Wilson – co-founder of Factory Records and the Haçienda – has been stored in an archive. With his new book, A Life in Thirty-Five Boxes, exploring the impulse behind collecting vinyl records, DJ and writer Dave Haslam gained exclusive access to the archive to share a few highlights.

http://www.davehaslam.com/#/35boxes/

Looks like I'll have to buy Dave Haslam's book. Haslam sold all of his records and sets out to chronicle a life in records. I hope it includes a fuller list of the records in Tony Wilson's collection.
 
Sue Pertwee-Tyr said:
I wonder how much the collection has in common with Harold Wilson’s? I suspect very little...
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Harold Wilson went loopy in '76, which is about when Tony Wilson swam into our ken*. Maybe Tony Wilson was actually Harold Wilson, who hadn't gone loopy after all, but had instead undertaken rejuvenation treatment at a secret Swiss clinic. Although having said that, I remember Tony Wilson being a local TV news presenter back in the late '60s, along with (Nero fiddles while) Gordon Burns** so that blows that theory out of the water.

*Keats
** HMHB
 
Joe Hutch said:
Harold Wilson went loopy in '76, which is about when Tony Wilson swam into our ken*. Maybe Tony Wilson was actually Harold Wilson, who hadn't gone loopy after all, but had instead undertaken rejuvenation treatment at a secret Swiss clinic. Although having said that, I remember Tony Wilson being a local TV news presenter back in the late '60s, along with (Nero fiddles while) Gordon Burns** so that blows that theory out of the water.

*Keats
** HMHB
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Your chronology is wrong.
Anthony Wilson did not start at Granada until 1973.
Similarly Gordon Burns joined Granada in the same year.
 
Joe Hutch said:
Harold Wilson went loopy in '76, which is about when Tony Wilson swam into our ken*. Maybe Tony Wilson was actually Harold Wilson, who hadn't gone loopy after all, but had instead undertaken rejuvenation treatment at a secret Swiss clinic. Although having said that, I remember Tony Wilson being a local TV news presenter back in the late '60s, along with (Nero fiddles while) Gordon Burns** so that blows that theory out of the water.

*Keats
** HMHB
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Mary Wilson had a long-standing grudge against Marcia Williams and one story circulating at the time was that she arranged through her KGB case officer to have a nerve agent smeared on Williams’s door knob. Unfortunately it was applied to her knocker which saved the intended victim but Harold, who would usually her give the knocker a brisk tap to let her know he was outside, became the unintended victim. He was saved by specialists at the poisons unit of the Middlesex Hospital but sustained a significant brain injury. This was later passed off by The Establishment as dementia. Mary Wilson never faced charges.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1485587/The-secret-that-could-have-toppled-Wilson.html
 
TheDecameron said:
Mary Wilson had a long-standing grudge against Marcia Williams and one story circulating at the time was that she arranged through her KGB case officer to have a nerve agent smeared on Williams’s door knob. Unfortunately it was applied to her knocker which saved the intended victim but Harold, who would usually her give the knocker a brisk tap to let her know he was outside, became the unintended victim. He was saved by specialists at the poisons unit of the Middlesex Hospital but sustained a significant brain injury. This was later passed off by The Establishment as dementia. Mary Wilson never faced charges.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1485587/The-secret-that-could-have-toppled-Wilson.html
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I think you have this wrong, after all it was Heath who lived in Salisbury, not Wilson.
 
Interesting that this collection is at MOSI in Manchester. I knew Wilson was a big supporter of the museum and had donated a fair bit of Factory memorabilia, but had no idea it included his record collection. I can’t find it listed in the online catalogue though. I’m a volunteer on a vintage computing exhibit at the museum so if I see someone who might know about it I’ll try asking for more details!
 
Tony L said:
Interesting that this collection is at MOSI in Manchester. I knew Wilson was a big supporter of the museum and had donated a fair bit of Factory memorabilia, but had no idea it included his record collection. I can’t find it listed in the online catalogue though. I’m a volunteer on a vintage computing exhibit at the museum so if I see someone who might know about it I’ll try asking for more details!
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Ah, so if the record shop suddenly has an influx of interesting and eclectic Factory records stuff, we'll know you found them...
 
Tony L said:
I’m a volunteer on a vintage computing exhibit at the museum so if I see someone who might know about it I’ll try asking for more details!
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"Hello, I'm a record dealer. Could I have access to the Tony Wilson record collection please?"
 
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