Whatever your opinion of Tony Wilson and the legend that now surrounds him, his death on Friday from kidney cancer deserves marking on NZBC. This photo, from an appearance on his cult Granada TV music show in 1976, the year of punk, accompanies his Wikipedia entry. We may never have heard of Joy Division, Happy Mondays or New Order without him. And the Haçienda became world-famous in the late 1980s and early 1990s as the heart of ‘Madchester’. The Smiths, Stone Roses and Oasis played there. Wilson was the (occasionally Caligula-like) brains and money behind both that club and Factory Records. One of the best obits I’ve read so far is this one.