{"id":796,"date":"2007-08-11T14:47:31","date_gmt":"2007-08-11T14:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=796"},"modified":"2007-08-11T14:47:31","modified_gmt":"2007-08-11T14:47:31","slug":"farewell-to-tony-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=796","title":{"rendered":"Farewell to Tony Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irdial.com\/leader_of_the_fac_tony_wilson_450.jpg\"><br \/>\nTony Wilson; NME 31 May 1986 [photo credit: A.J. Barratt]<\/p>\n<p>Tony Wilson died Friday August 10th. He created and ran Factory Records &#8211; one of the greatest, most inspiring record labels ever. I have every Factory Record ever released, and loved and still love the majority of them. He was also a great producer. A man of impeccable taste, true imagination, inspiration, insight and intuition. When we speak of <i>real people<\/i>, we are talking about the likes of Tony Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>What a privilege it was to be at the receiving end of such greatness.<\/p>\n<p>Ladies and gentlemen&#8230;that is <i><b>how it was done.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Wilson; NME 31 May 1986 [photo credit: A.J. Barratt] Tony Wilson died Friday August 10th. He created and ran Factory Records &#8211; one of the greatest, most inspiring record labels ever. I have every Factory Record ever released, and loved and still love the majority of them. He was also a great producer. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}