James Nice

Factory Records has become legendary but their club, The Factory, was perhaps more important to the Mancunian post-punk scene.

From cutting the first ever Factory record to Tony Wilson fronting the costs with his dead mother's cash, take a peek into what became the soundtrack of the Manchester music scene.

Extracted from new book Shadowplayers, the inside story of the start of Britain's most revered and infamous record label.

Madonna pelted with bread rolls at the Hacienda, a funky version of Love Will Tear Us Apart and an exceedingly grumpy Tony Wilson. Just a few of the ingredients in 1984 that eventually led to the creation of legendary record label Factory Records.