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Shadowplayers: The Rise And Fall Of Factory Records
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A Revised And Expanded Edition Of The Long OutOfPrint History Of Factory Records, The Legendary Record Label That Launched Joy Division, New Order, And Happy Mondays. Featuring A Foreword By Jon Savage.Definitive And Comprehensive, This Is The Actual Story Of Factory Records Peter Savillein 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 ClubS 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 LabelS 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.Now Fully Revised And Expanded With A New Chapter, Shadowplayers Is The Most Complete, Authoritative And Thoroughly Researched Account Of How A Group Of Provincial Anarchists And Entrepreneurs Saw Off Bankers, Journalists And GunToting Gangsters To Create The Most Influential Record Label Of Modern Times. Based On Both Archive And Contemporary Sources, The Book Tells The Full Story Of Factory S Heroic Struggles, Its Complex Web Of Inventive, Idiosyncratic And Tragic Personalities, And Ultimately, The Acclaimed And MuchLoved Music It Produced.
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