Manchester music pioneers honoured |
04 2007 |
| The city of Manchester will always be associated with, among many other things, great music, a fact acknowledged at the recent Diesel U:Music Awards ceremony. Soon after the death of the legendary Factory Records owner Tony Wilson, the label's designer Peter Saville received the Contribution to Music Award after having designed some of the best known album covers of the 1970s and 1980s, including for Joy Division and New Order. At the same ceremony, the three surviving members of Joy Division received the 4Music Icon Award after almost 30 years in the musical spotlight. After Joy Division singer Ian Curtis died in 1980, they went on to find success with New Order, with a new biopic about the band out this week. Though the legendary Hacienda nightclub has now been turned into flats, allowing music fans old and new to rent their own bit of history, new venues continue to spring up all across the city allowing Manchester to stay at the cutting-edge of the UK music scene, often the number one attraction for the thousands of young professionals or students who relocate there every year.  |
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