"Their guitarist Vini Reilly was so poleaxed by depression that he was virtually unable to leave his house: 12 different attempts were made to section him over the course of 1979. Believing that Reilly was going to die, Factory Records boss Tony Wilson intervened, buying him a new guitar, then suggested he visit a studio with the label's troubled but visionary producer Martin Hannett as an experiment."
"The sessions were a disaster. Hannett ignored Reilly in favour of tinkering with a vast amount of cutting-edge electronic equipment he had brought with him. Reilly fitfully played something on the guitar, but eventually stormed out with the words: I'm fucking sick of this. He did not return. The artwork for The Durutti Column: The Return of the Durutti Column. Unaware that he was making an album, Reilly was mortified when Hannett handed over a finished product, and absolutely hated what he heard."
The Durutti Column's debut album emerged after the original band split and with guitarist Vini Reilly severely depressed and largely housebound, facing multiple sectioning attempts in 1979. Factory Records boss Tony Wilson bought Reilly a new guitar and arranged studio time with Martin Hannett. The sessions collapsed as Hannett focused on electronic equipment and largely ignored Reilly, who eventually stormed out and did not return. Hannett later delivered a finished album that Reilly found mortifying and hated, believing it would not reach an audience. The resulting record diverged sharply from prior post-punk work and drew comparisons to ECM-style atmospheric jazz.
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