# The Christie to benefit from ode to Tony Wilson charity single

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2015/08/12/the-christie-to-benefit-from-ode-to-tony-wilson-charity-single/
- Published: 2015-08-12T11:56:05+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The anniversary of the death of Factory Records founder Tony Wilson is being commemorated
with a charity single which will raise funds for The Christie Charitable Fund at
the cancer treatment centre in Manchester.**

The video of _St Anthony: An Ode to Anthony H Wilson_, by Mike Garry and Joe Duddell,
features a remarkable array of actors, musicians, journalists, and poets including
Steve Coogan, Christopher Ecclestone, Terry Christian, Richard Madeley, Julie Hesmondhalgh,
John Cooper Clarke, and Philip Glass.

It is a fast-paced paean to Wilson and to Manchester, its people, buildings, history
and music. There are also references to The Christie and its work.

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Wilson died of cancer in 2007. This year would have been his 65th birthday of the
record label owner, nightclub manager, impresario, TV and radio presenter and journalist.

 

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