BROADCASTER Mark Radcliffe has paid tribute to Tony Wilson after the release of a charity video in memory of the late music mogul.

The Bolton DJ has appeared alongside other big names including Steve Coogan, Iggy Pop, Bernard Sumner, Christopher Eccleston and Shaun Ryder in the St Anthony: An Ode To Anthony H Wilson - a charity single in aid of The Christie hospital in Manchester.

Wilson launched Factory Records in 1978 and he went on to establish the label by signing the likes of Joy Division, New Order and The Happy Mondays.

He became known as Mr Manchester for his work throughout his career promoting the city.

Wilson was immortalised on film by Coogan in 2003's 24 Hour Party People and again in the Joy Division biopic Control, that time played by Craig Parkinson.

After a long struggle with cancer, Wilson died in 2007 at The Christie.

Mark said: "Tony left a big hole when he died. He was the person who really made you think you could do something differently.

"Nowadays it seems entirely obvious that big things happen in Manchester and the North West, but back then the city was a half derelict place. Tony started to make things happen.

"He was a figurehead of that kind of thinking when I was working at Piccadilly Radio in 1979. It was extraordinary the idea that you could do things without going to London."

For the video, Mancunian poet Mike Garry took his words to music composer Joe Duddell who decided to base the music on New Order's Your Silent Face.

Mark said: "When Mike asked me to be involved I absolutely wanted to. I held Tony in incredibly high regard. He believed in Manchester. I do miss him and I did think a lot of him. A lot of people may have said he was pretentious but he probably would have admitted that himself.

"He was a real inspiration to a lot of people and will not be forgotten."

To buy the single visit http://radi.al/StAnthony or to donate text FACT65 £ followed by the amount to 70070.