Founder of Factory records and music mogul Anthony Wilson, who was also known as “Mr Manchester,” because he had discovered some of the most famous bands from the city, has died on Friday evening at the Christie Hospital surrounded by family. Anthony Wilson was 57.
Anthony Wilson was a record label owner, a radio presenter, a TV show host, a nightclub manager, an impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC, and was behind the success of New Order and the Happy Mondays, but he had recently been suffering from kidney cancer.
Anthony Wilson, who was also well known for setting up the Hacienda nightclub, had emergency surgery in January to remove a diseased kidney. 
