In January 2006, Yvette Livesey and her partner Tony Wilson guest edited an issue of Building magazine. Sadly, Salford-born Wilson, described by his biographer Paul Morley as “a committed northerner, loudmouth, know-it-all, broadcasting revolutionary, and music mogul (among other things)”, died less than 18 months later at the age of 57 from cancer at the Christie Hospital in Manchester. 

Wilson was known not only as a Granada news presenter but also as the co-founder of Factory Records – home of Joy Division, New Order and the Happy Mondays – a partner in the iconic Hacienda nightclub (a former yacht showroom), and a co-founder of the In The City international music business conference with Livesey, which ran in Manchester for almost two decades.