"If you are given a choice between printing the truth or printing the legend, by all means print the legend.

So says Tony Wilson (played by Coogan), co-founder of the legendary Factory Records and host of 'So it Goes' - the show that took punk music to television in the UK in 1976. 24 Hour Party People is the fictionalised, sensationalised, glorified story of the Madchester scene and the record label it revolved around from the early days of Joy Division, and their transformation into New Order, though to the label's demise as the Seattle grunge scene took the world by storm. Along the way we meet the Sex Pistols, James, The Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses and legendary insane, drugged up, perfectionist producer Alan Erasmus. We watch the creation of today's rave culture at the Hacienda, the club formerly owned by the members of New Order. We see a record company run like a boys' club slush fund become one of the most influential forces in the music industry, before coming crashing down in financial ruin

24 Hour Party People is essential viewing for anyone that ever had an interest in the music coming out of the UK between the late 70s and early 90s. For everyone else it's both fascinating and hilarious tale about a successful record company being run in an unusual way by some completely off-the-wall characters