Publication date: 09.10.2025
£16.99
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A revised and expanded edition of the long out-of-print
history of Factory Records, featuring a foreword by
Jon Savage.
'Definitive and comprehensive, this is the actual story of Factory Records' Peter Saville.
In 1978, a Factory for Sale sign gave Alan Erasmus and Tony Wilson a
name for their fledgling Manchester club night. Though they couldn't have
known it at the time, this was the launch of one of the most significant musical and cultural legacies of the late twentieth century. The club's electrifying
live scene soon translated to vinyl, and Factory Records went on to become
the most innovative and celebrated record label of the next thirty years.
Always breaking new musical ground, Factory introduced the listening public
to bands such as Joy Division, whose Unknown Pleasures was the label's first
album release, New Order, Durutti Column and Happy Mondays. Propelled
onwards by the inspirational cultural entrepreneur, Tony Wilson, Factory always sought new ways to energise the popular consciousness, such as the
infamous Hacienda nightclub, which enjoyed a chequered 15-year history after opening in 1982.
history of Factory Records, featuring a foreword by
Jon Savage.
'Definitive and comprehensive, this is the actual story of Factory Records' Peter Saville.
In 1978, a Factory for Sale sign gave Alan Erasmus and Tony Wilson a
name for their fledgling Manchester club night. Though they couldn't have
known it at the time, this was the launch of one of the most significant musical and cultural legacies of the late twentieth century. The club's electrifying
live scene soon translated to vinyl, and Factory Records went on to become
the most innovative and celebrated record label of the next thirty years.
Always breaking new musical ground, Factory introduced the listening public
to bands such as Joy Division, whose Unknown Pleasures was the label's first
album release, New Order, Durutti Column and Happy Mondays. Propelled
onwards by the inspirational cultural entrepreneur, Tony Wilson, Factory always sought new ways to energise the popular consciousness, such as the
infamous Hacienda nightclub, which enjoyed a chequered 15-year history after opening in 1982.
