Label founder, TV personality, and radio-show host Tony Wilson has passed away at the age of 57. He was diagnosed with kidney cancer in February of this year, though the cause of death is reportedly a heart attack he suffered while undergoing treatment for the cancer.

Wilson, born in Manchester, UK, is credited as being the first person to book the Sex Pistols for a television appearance, on his So It Goes series in the late ’70s. He was also one of the founders of the legendary Factory Records label and Hacienda nightclub in Manchester.

Wilson in 1976.