[lbo-talk] One last bit on Factory Records' Tony Wilson's death

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 15 18:06:34 PDT 2007


[Apparently flags in Manchester at half-mast. -B.]

Reporter: How do you answer the charge that you're a fascist? [Joy Division took their name from a historical novel about concentration camps]

Tony Wilson: Have you never heard of situationalism or postmodernism? Do you know nothing about the free play of signs and signifiers? [lots of fast British talking]

"He's a Cambridge educated gobshite who runs off at the mouth at the drop of a hat quoting as many philosophers and obscure French, Italian artists...and will give you a theory about absolutely anything, which you won't be able to understand." - Stephen Morris, New Order/Joy Division member

Excerpt from 'That Tony Wilson' Granada TV, 2002 on YouTube about Wilson's role in introducing public to Sex Pistols, post-punk, etc.:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFndQ379ICw



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