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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2007/aug/12/tonywilson Idealist, chancer, loyal friend: why I will miss Tony Wilson Paul Morley pays tribute to his mentor, the man who shaped Manchester's culture from punk to the Happy Mondays and who died on Friday at the age of 57 Sun 12 Aug 2007 16.57 BST Sometimes, Tony Wilson was just too much. Perhaps he was just too much all of the time. Sometimes I hated that he was too much, too sure of himself, too convinced that his ways were the right ways, rampant with self-assurance, self-belief, self-confidence, self-indulgence, a man crammed with busy, swashbuckling selves to the extent you were never quite sure what he was up to, and what he was. Could someone so forward, so garrulous, so indiscreet be trusted? Was he really the idealistic northern philanthropist determined to fight a lazy, complacent and derelict south, discovering and enabling all kinds of local talent to help in his battle for an absurdist form of north-west independence? Or ...

MANCS UNITED • EX- NME stalwart, media-mouth and ‘business molester’ PAUL MORLEY has an opinion about most things - including NEW ORDER whose soap-like historical documentary, neworderstory , broadcast this weekend, he scripted. DELE FADELE shares a beer and a pop music theory with him. THE SUAVE, debonair Paul Morley is putting across his public face - as opposed to private thoughts - over French beers in Soho. By turns animated and pensive, he’s debunking myths about his legendary self-absorption and talking sense a mile a minute about the New Order South Bank Show documentary, neworderstory (Sunday, ITV, times vary), he’s just written and produced with able help from director Kevin Hewitt (whose other credits include filming The Clash). Legend has it (unfairly) that former NME journalist Paul Morley lost the paper 100,000 readers in the early ’80s because of his self-obsessed obtuse writing; and that he’s had adventures in the grinning rictus of the music business as a ...