Free for a week on RBPManchester special, Pt 1: Paul Morley (pictured in 1977) reports on the
Free for a week on RBPManchester special, Pt 1: Paul Morley (pictured in 1977) reports on the rise of Manchester’s music scene for NME in early 1979. Plus Paul sees Joy Division live at the city’s Band On The Wall in 1978, witnesses New Order’s 1981 “haunting” of London’s Heaven after Ian Curtis’ suicide, and pens the Guardian obituary for Factory Records founder Tony Wilson, the subject of his remarkable new biography From Manchester with Love…Much more Morley on RBP -- source link
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