by Johnny Marr
Vidal Sassoon (hairdressers): Manchester 111, 196; Mayfair 201
Vincent, Gene 100
Virgin Records (record label) 173
Virgin Records, Manchester (record shop) 54, 126
Voidoids, The (band) 67
Wag Club, London 111
Wailers, The (band) 284, 320, 345
Walters, John 167
Wapping, London: Elephant Studios 174–5
Warner Brothers (record label) 173, 257, 304, 389–91
Weller, Paul 244, 345
Westwood, Vivienne 88, 89, 98
Weymouth, Tina 274
Whalley Range, Manchester 70, 72, 330
White, James 157
White Dice (band) 81–3
Whitney, Charlie 276–7
Whittle, Paul 81
Who, The (band) 231, 340, 341; ‘I Can See for Miles’ 318; ‘Substitute’ 48
Wild Ram (band) 45
Wilde, Oscar 203–4, 250
Williams, Kevin 50, 55–7, 71, 75, 81
Williamson, James 54
Wilson, Harold 291
Wilson, Tony 45, 101, 115, 131–2, 146, 189, 304
Wire (band) 87, 114
Wolstencroft, Simon 196, 248; in Freak Party 92–4, 96, 97; as potential member of The Smiths 119, 128–9, 130, 132, 134, 137
Wood, Ellen 408–9
Wood, Ronnie 420
Wool Hall, Bath (recording studio) 264
Wythenshawe, Manchester 21–3, 43, 46, 66–7; Brookway High School 50, 68, 74; Co-Op (supermarket) 73–5; Sacred Heart Primary School 23–5, 32, 37, 55, 68, 123; St Augustine’s Grammar School 37, 39–43, 50, 55, 59–61, 68–70, 77–8; St Paul’s Secondary School 39
Wythenshawe College 86, 140; West Wythy youth club 48–9, 52
Wythenshawe Forum 45–6, 72
Wythenshawe Park Fair 27
X-Clothes, Manchester (clothes shop) 98–102, 105, 110, 125–6, 131, 143–4, 148–9
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (band) 362, 394
Yeats, W.B. 419
Young, Neil 52, 60, 61, 64, 320, 342
ZE Records (record label) 157
Zimmer, Hans 401–3
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