Pete Wylie sent out a nice tribute on his email list:
TONY WILSON DIED TONIGHT
[AS DID ANTHONY H.WILSON ;two distinct people]
I LOVE TONY
I WILL MISS TONY.AND ANTHONY...
there's a myth flies round that tony hated liverpool.
not true
what IS true is tony loved manchester!
and as we all know,our local loyalties always beat general overvirew...
jeeeez...if only liverpool...or birmingham...or boro...or
glasgow...EVERYWHERE!...Had a a tony wilson,we'd ALL be better off...
i'm fuckin GUTTED...
seeing the pistols on his show 'so it goes' was more important than 'anarchy',or
the pistols' shows i saw...
cos I saw johnny's EYES!-the whole truth...
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