Tony Wilson

Spiritualized: ‘We play rock’n’roll, so it’s inherently inept’

Jason Pierce on how rock changed his life and Kurt Vonnegut inspired his latest album

Jim Kerr: ‘I’d been a rock star. I thought, What happened my life?

The singer talks about Live Aid, ex-wives and four decades of Simple Minds

Bernard Sumner: ‘We made music because we hated work and normality’

New Order’s frontman on Joy Division, Morrissey, Trump and the far right, giving up Pernod (‘alcoholic toothpaste’), and how he finally learned to enjoy touring

New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes review – Euphoric Manchester elegy

Ambitious and joyous work to remind us that New Order are best behind the synthesizer

‘Oasis distorted the idea of what the Manchester scene was’

Dave Haslam, onetime Hacienda DJ, has vignettes on Madchester, Morrissey and Mark E Smith

Hugely successful pop artist whose ‘You Sexy Thing’ was a worldwide hit

Errol Brown: November 12th, 1943 - May 6th, 2015

Bernard Sumner: ‘I’m happier in myself. Better behaved. Less of a f***ing idiot’

He took a bath on ‘Blue Monday’, lost a pile in the Hacienda and was part of a scene that has become music myth. Bernard Sumner of New Order on living in the present

The Look of Love