On the Culture Show on BBC2 tonight, sometime Durutti Column drummer, old man Bruce Mitchell had this to say about Tony Wilson:
Every crisis he had a positive take on. There wasn’t a negative bone in his body and I found it inspirational then and I do now.
Vini Reilly described the last time he saw Wilson, the day before he died. Wilson had been unable to speak but as Reilly left, Wilson pulled himself up on his bed and gave him a peace sign.
So moving.
Tony Wilson always meant a lot to me, been a bit of a hero since I was a teenager. I’m so unlike him, but I so much wanted to be more like him then. And I still do now.