Cross post from elsewhere
One of the great iconclasts has gone - founder of factory records and the man behind Joy/Division - New Order The Mondays, and to a lesser extent Stone Roses.
Only 57 and a Mancunian through and through.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manc ... 941716.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid ... b=1&news=1
another bit of my youth has gone