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Paul Morley to pen Tony Wilson book

By | Published on Friday 22 October 2010

Journalist Paul Morley has announced that he is writing a book about legendary Factory Records boss Tony Wilson.

He revealed the news on Wednesday at an event at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall – called ‘The Tony Wilson Interviews’ – at which the writer spoke to performance poet Mike Garry, Buzzcocks manager Richard Boon and The Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly about Wilson.

It turned out the event was really intended as research for the book, Morley musing that while most authors write a book and then stage events to promote it, he thought it would be more in-keeping with Wilson’s approach to life and business to do the events first and then write the book.

Morley said: “I’m writing a book about Tony Wilson. He’s a fascinating figure. There’s already two or three books about him, but that doesn’t put me off at all!”

He added: “Often what happens with a book is that, after it’s written, there’s the book launch and these kind of events then happen. I thought it was very Wilsonian – and I promise to my publishers, if they’re here, this isn’t just a form of prevarication – to do some Tony themed events first, and make them part of the book itself”.



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