The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer, a commercial version of the Baby Machine from the University of Manchester in the autumn of 1951.

They are regarded as an important influence on the Manchester music scene, the independent record label movement, punk rock, power pop, pop punk and indie rock.

The music press viewed the scene around Camden Town as a musical centre ; frequented by Britpop groups like Blur, Elastica, and Menswear, Melody Maker declared " Camden is to 1995 what Seattle was to 1992, what Manchester was to 1989, and what Mr Blobby was to 1993.

In the mid to late 1980s a wave of psychedelic and other electronic dance music, most notably acid house and Techno, emerged and caught on in the clubs, warehouses, and free-parties around London and later Manchester.

He provided suites of incidental music for a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Gaiety in 1874 and Henry VIII at the Theatre Royal, Manchester in 1877.

During the final years of her life she was based around the Prestwich and Salford area of Manchester and although she was still struggling with addiction had started to become interested in music again.

Madison Square Garden is the third busiest music arena in the world in terms of ticket sales, behind Manchester Arena, Manchester and The O2 Arena, located in London, in the United Kingdom.

Autechre are an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale, Greater Manchester.

In May 2004, Gibb and his brother Barry both received honorary doctorates of music from The University of Manchester, England.

The Manchester Guardians music critic, Neville Cardus, met Delius during the festival.

On February 3, 2009, Down was announced — and later removed from — the lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, currently the largest annual outdoor music festival in the U. S. On February 18, 2009, Down was announced in the lineup for the 2009 Roskilde Festival in Denmark.

In 2011 Freelance Music Apprenticeships are available in music colleges in Birmingham, Manchester and London.

At that time there was a fairly successful punk label in Manchester called Rabid Records, run by Tosh Ryan ( formerly of music collective Music Force ) with Martin Hannett.

* Tony Wilson presented Granada Reports and music programmes which promoted Manchester music which gave him the nickname Mr Manchester.

There is a live rock and hip hop music scene, which reached its height in the Britpop years, around 1997, due to its close proximity to Sheffield and Manchester.

808 State are a British electronic music outfit, formed in 1987 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine and their common state of mind.

Madchester was a music scene that developed in Manchester, England, towards the end of the 1980s and into the early 1990s.

The music scene in Manchester immediately before the Madchester era had been dominated by bands such as The Smiths, New Order, The Fall and James.

The festival included film-screenings, a music seminar, art shows and gigs by the city's most prominent bands, including an all-day gig at Manchester G-Mex featuring A Certain Ratio, The Smiths, New Order and The Fall.

Other clubs in the Manchester area started to catch on to House music including Devilles, Isadora's, Konspiracy, House, Soundgardens and Man Alive in the city centre, Bugsy's in Ashton-under-Lyne and the Osbourne Club in Miles Platting.

According to Sean O ' Hagan, writing in the NME: " There is a particularly credible music biz rumour-come theory that certain Northern towns — Manchester being the prime example — have had their water supply treated with small doses of mind-expanding chemicals ... Everyone from Happy Mondays to the severely disorientated Morrissey conform to the theory in some way.

Both New Order and Joy Division were among the most successful artists on the Factory Records label, run by Granada television personality Tony Wilson, and partnered with Factory in the financing of the Manchester club The Haçienda.

The first compiler-compiler to use that name was written by Tony Brooker in 1960 and was used to create compilers for the Atlas computer at the University of Manchester, including the Atlas Autocode compiler.

Factory Records was a Manchester based British independent record label, started in 1978 by Tony Wilson and Alan Erasmus, which featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, Northside and ( briefly ) James and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

On the commentary track, however, Tony Wilson makes it clear that this is a " bit unfair " because Vini had a " real audience ": " you can take him to Portugal and you get two thousand people, you can take him to Paris and you get eight hundred people, and in Manchester you get five or six hundred ".

It included the phrase " the hacienda must be built ", which influenced Tony Wilson of Factory Records in naming his Manchester night-club, The Haçienda.

Tony Cunningham was born in Workington and educated at the Workington Grammar School ( which became Stainburn School in 1984 ) on Stainburn Road before attending the University of Liverpool where he received a BA degree in History and Politics in 1975, and the Didsbury College of Education, Manchester where he qualified as a teacher with a Postgraduate Certificate in Education in 1976.

Anthony Joseph ' Tony ' Lloyd ( born 25 February 1950 ) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Manchester Central since 1997, and was the Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party from 2006 to 2012, when he stepped down in order to stand as the Labour candidate to be the elected Police and Crime Commissioner for Greater Manchester.

* Tony Lloyd 4 Greater Manchester

Clement was born Tony Peter Panayi in Manchester, England, the son of Carol ( née Drapkin ) and Peter Panayi.

Stockport County beat Manchester City at Maine Road for the first time in history () thanks to an equaliser from ex-City youngster Alan Bailey, and the winning goal from the penalty spot by Tony Dinning.

Manchester brought in first choice Team GB Goaltender Stephen Murphy who had previously played with Tony Hand in Dundee.

Moss Side is part of the Manchester Central constituency, represented by the Labour Party MP Tony Lloyd.

Beadle was chosen in 1970 by Tony Elliott, the founder of Time Out, to set up a Manchester edition of the magazine, a venture that was short-lived, though he subsequently maintained a connection with the publication in London.

* Maddy Russo ( Melissa Manchester ) – Ex-wife of Nick, and mother of Tony, Joey and Blossom.

James Stannage is currently one of the presenters on the Manchester online radio station, simply titled ' ManchesterRadioOnline. Com ', alongside Dave Foran ( Dairy Lee Dave ) Sean Holland and Jay Smith ( New Music First ), Dan Shaw, Matty Shaw and Paul ( Ripman ) Ripley – and is occasionally joined in the studio by one of the station's producers, Tony Filer ( aka ' Wrestler '). As the station is based online, it is not subject to the same regulations as conventional radio stations, allowing the likes of Stannage to voice their outspoken opinions.

Bell has been inducted into the Manchester City FC hall of fame along with Billy Meredith, Tommy Johnson, Sam Cowan, Eric Brook, Fred Tilson, Frank Swift, Peter Doherty, Roy Clarke, Bert Trautmann, Ken Barnes, Roy Paul, Alan Oakes, Neil Young, Mike Summerbee, Tony Book, Francis Lee, Joe Corrigan, Paul Lake and Niall Quinn.

* Tony Coton-Former Manchester City F. C Goalkeeper.

Kenwright's consortium included Manchester based Tom Cannon, Tony Tighe ( who later went on to create The Everton Collection ) and Mike Dyble whilst building magnate Arthur Abercromby was Cheshire based.

Amongst them was Tony Dunne who would be later transferred to Manchester United with whom he picked up a European Cup winners medal in 1968.

In the travel section of The Sunday Telegraph, a headline article ' My Top Ten Train Trips ' by Tony Robinson writes of the Manchester to Derby journey, " It is not a trip to do all in one go ; stop off at the dramatic little town of Whaley Bridge and have a stroll around the historic Peak Forest Canal Basin ".

Law still had a contract with Manchester City, but new manager Tony Book told him that he would only be playing reserve team football if he stayed at the club in the new season.