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News flash: There is now a reasonably coherent edit of the story so far, on this site at: www.mdmarchive.co.uk/artefact/35410 Alan Wise was an eccentric influence on the Manchester music scene for 40 years. At the Russell Club in the late 70s. As manager of Nico in the 80s - and as "Dr Demetrius" in the mercilessly funny book about them which followed: Songs They Never Play On The Radio. As friend and promoter of New Order, The Fall and John Cooper Clarke, in between falling out with all of them. As the man who put Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry and Little Richard, back on British stages in the Noughties. As the gambler who eventually ran out of luck and money but never quite out of friends.
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John Cooper Clarke, in autobiography I Wanna Be Yours, refers to Alan Wise and Dougie James sharing a flat in Salford and says: "With the Soul Train, Dougie had shared the bill wih Frank Sinatra, the Jackson 5, Bill Haley, Edwin Starr, Doris Troy, Norman Wisdom, Tommy Cooper ... and Stan Boardman."
