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Gretton and became
The band befriended Rob Gretton, later to manage Joy Division, and with his financial help became the first band to release a single on Manchester ’ s independent record label Rabid Records.
Saville became a partner in Factory Records along with Wilson, Martin Hannett, Rob Gretton and Alan Erasmus.
In 1977, Gretton became a leading figure in the Manchester punk scene with his involvement with Slaughter and the Dogs.

Gretton and partner
Soon after, Gretton and his reluctant partner Tony Wilson agreed to take a chance and add the band to their roster.

Gretton and label
Rob Gretton, manager of Joy Division, decided he did not want the band to sign to a London record label, preferring to do it all in Manchester.
Originally conceived by Rob Gretton, it was largely financed by the record label Factory Records and the band New Order along with label boss Tony Wilson.
In the wake of the Buzzcocks ' release, the old movers and shakers from the Manchester music collective Music Force, who included producer Martin Hannett, Tosh Ryan and Lawrence Beadle, formed a local label called Rabid Records and started putting out singles by local acts like Slaughter & The Dogs ( Rob Gretton later to manage Joy Division and New Order was their roadie / tour manager – all Wythenshawe lads ), John Cooper Clarke and Ed Banger & The Nosebleeds ( whose lineup included Vini Reilly ) and they licensed " Jilted John " by Jilted John to EMI records.
The label was initially independently distributed by local city record shop Manchester Underground, before New Order manager Rob Gretton invited Henry to bring the label under the wing of his then new imprint Rob ’ s Records in late 1994.
With Gretton absent in New York with New Order, " Cool as Ice " ( backed with " Twice as Nice ") never officially received a release in the UK, although BBC Radio 1 DJs John Peel and Janice Long were playing the track on evening and late night shows from white label pressings that Factory Records had made available.
After joining Factory Records in 1979 Gretton brought many new bands to the label, including Section 25, X-O-Dus, Crispy Ambulance, Stockholm Monsters, Minny Pops, The Names, Quando Quango, The Wake, 52nd Street and Happy Mondays.
Between 1996 and 1999, Gretton managed his last Manchester fledglings Gabrielles Wish, signing them to his own label, Rob's Records.
Gretton was proprietor of the Rob's Records label and a co-founder along with Tony Wilson of The Haçienda nightclub in Manchester, England.
Rob's Records was a Manchester record label founded by Rob Gretton, former manager of Joy Division and New Order, and a co-director of Factory Records.

Gretton and Factory
With a lot of discussion, Tony Wilson, Rob Gretton and Alan Erasmus set up Factory Records, stealing Martin Hannett from Rabid.
Wilson, Erasmus and Gretton formed Factory Communications Ltd.
FACT was reserved for full-length albums, while FAC was used for both single song releases, and many other Factory " productions ", including: posters ( FAC 1 advertised a club night ), The Haçienda ( FAC 51 ), a hairdressing salon ( FAC 98 ), a broadcast of Channel 4's The Tube ( FAC 104 ), customised packing tape ( FAC 136 ), a bucket on a restored watermill ( FAC 148 ), the Haçienda cat ( FAC 191 ), a bet between Wilson and Gretton ( FAC 253 ), a lawsuit filed against Factory Records by Martin Hannett ( FAC 61 ), and a radio advertisement ( FAC 294 ).
This single eventually caught the attention of New Order manager Rob Gretton, who helped the band sign to Factory Records in 1982 and record an LP ( Harmony ) at Strawberry Studio in Stockport.
Gretton was 52nd Street ’ s A & R Manager at Factory Records.
With both major labels increasing the pressure to talk to the manager-less 52nd Street, bass player Derrick Johnson instead contacted ex-DJ Rob Gretton, co-owner of Factory Records, and Joy Division ’ s manager.
This plan was supposed to speed things up ; she could make decisions on behalf of Factory Communications once this was clarified by either Rob Gretton or Tony Wilson.
Reade ’ s business dealings caused eruptions not just with Wilson and Gretton, but Michael Shamberg who ran Factory US.
After deliberation and much soul searching, against the wishes of both Gretton and Wilson, 52nd Street followed Lindsay Reade and left Factory Records in January 1985.
Their debut 7 ", " Girls Don't Count ", was released in July 1980 on Factory Records, produced by Ian Curtis and Rob Gretton of Joy Division.
Gretton was portrayed by Paddy Considine in the 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, which dramatized the rise and fall of Factory Records, and by Toby Kebbell ( who coincidentally plays Considine's brother in Dead Man's Shoes ) in the 2007 film Control, a biopic of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis.

Gretton and club
With some friends, actor Alan Erasmus ( Lennie James ) and Rob Gretton ( Paddy Considine ), Wilson starts a weekly series of punk rock shows at a Manchester club.
It is during the opening night, and a performance by a band Gretton manages called Joy Division, that Wilson is caught by his wife, Lindsay ( Shirley Henderson ), getting fellatio from a woman in the back of the club owner Don Tonay ( Peter Kay )' s " nosh van ".
" Synthpop had been a major force in British popular music for several years, but " Blue Monday ", by encouragement of the band's manager, Rob Gretton, was dance record that also exhibited influences from the New York club scene, particularly the work of producers like Arthur Baker ( who collaborated on New Order's follow-up single " Confusion ").
He also co-founded The Haçienda with Wilson, Rob Gretton and New Order, a famous Manchester night club which closed down in Summer 1997.

Gretton and closed
In addition there is the ' newer ' former Gretton Stores, now a tea shop and formerly the White Hart pub, which closed in 1931.

Gretton and down
When an amendment to similar effect was proposed at Westminster by John Gretton, the British government duly voted it down.

Gretton and would
Tony Wilson would often be around the Rabid offices and Rob Gretton was friends with Tosh Ryan, Martin Hannett and others in the set up as they were all from the same council estate in Wythenshawe.
After working on the research for a Granada TV feature about Rabid, he along with Alan Erasmus and Joy Division Manager Rob Gretton ( the Ideal for Living EP had been distributed by Rabid ) decided they would do their own version of Rabid Records, but instead of churning out singles and then licensing the album deals to major labels ( Slaughter & The Dogs ' debut appeared on Decca, John Cooper Clarke was licensed to CBS, and Jilted John to EMI ), they would concentrate on albums.

Gretton and following
Overlooking the village green is the ' old ' Gretton Stores ( now Threeways ), whose last storekeeper was Mr. Pegg. It ceased being the stores following a fire in the early sixties which destroyed the upper floor and thatch.

became and fifth
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In 1999, the party's support collapsed and it became the country's fifth largest party.
On the NASDAQ the identifying fifth letter " Q " at the end of a stock symbol indicates the company is in bankruptcy ( formerly the " Q " was placed in front of the pre-existing stock symbol ; a celebrated example was Penn Central, whose symbol was originally " PC " and became " QPC " after the company filed Chapter 11 in 1970 ).
Under Mourinho, Chelsea became the fifth English team to win back-to-back league championships since the Second World War ( 2004 – 05 and 2005 – 06 ), in addition to winning an FA Cup ( 2007 ) and two League Cups ( 2005 and 2007 ).
The famous decree Haec Sancta Synodus, which gave primacy to the authority of the Council and thus became a source for ecclesial conciliarism, was promulgated in the fifth session, 6 April 1415:
# Quarterback Roger Staubach – Super Bowl VI – Staubach became the fifth quarterback overall to be awarded the MVP trophy after Dallas ' win over the Miami Dolphins.
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Originally a hit for Frank and Nancy Sinatra, the song became Williams ' fifth number one hit in the UK.
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Then, on October 2, 2002, Lori Ann Lewis-Rivera became the fifth victim of the snipers who terrorized the Washington area that month, while cleaning her auto at a Kensington gas station.

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