We had a heroic attitude to artistic freedom, and we thought normal contracts were a bit vulgar - somehow not punk. But that was the whole point - we weren't a regular record label. — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
“Pong had mutated into large stand-up Sega consoles by '82 and here was some extra revenue the guys were well up for. So the… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
“soothing seemed to work and soon the grunts petered away in to the rhythmic rasping of animal slumber. To keep the camel calm, he… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
You don't know reality until someone makes a fiction of it. Reality needs the completion of fiction. — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
“Honouring the youth of their town they provided a décor that a £20-a-Martini fleecing parlour could not have amortized. They had bought eighty low… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
I am very much an only child, meaning I am self-reliant, egocentric, sociable. I had my mother, father, and an uncle who lived with… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
