Chapter 167 ~ ...oh my God, it HAS been a year...

In the North of England, it rains & it rains & it rains. Yet we still produced the Industrial Revolution, the Trade Union Movement, the Communist Manifesto, and even the Goddamned computer. And down South, where the sun never sets, you took all our money, & what did you produce?

Chas & fucking Dave!!!

~ Tony Wilson, June 2007

Friday 10 August 2007 - Chapter 35: Farewell, Tony--you never walked alone.


Anthony H. Wilson, 20 February 1950 - 10 August 2007

A year ago today, tonight, Tony Wilson lost his battle with kidney cancer at the age f 57. I still remember... all the stories, all the tributes. The threads on the NOOL and Barney's Angels forums. The playlist I had assembled with many things Factory-related.

Saturday 11 August 2007 - Chapter 35b: More Thoughts on the King of Madchester.

So today as I'm looking back on the pictures... like this one in particular...

it's really hard for this to sink in. It really is. I still can't believe a year's past since Mr. Wilson passed away.

*sigh* Ah well. Not much else to say now, except to close in a modified form of the commendation I closed with a year ago here in the Underground [and until the next round]...

A year has come and gone, and things haven't been the same. You have been, and still, sorely missed by family, friends and fans.

Rest in peace, Tony Wilson, Sir. You never walked alone.

With love and gratitude, and all our regards,

~ the Small-Town Order of the Vikings
and the Citizens of the Trans-Underground Express.