Mike Pickering overheard one of the DJ's songs during a phone call and spotted his talent immediately.

When Mike Pickering became resident DJ at the Hacienda in Manchester it was an arts venue where people often sat around listening to poetry. But he helped turn it into a cathedral of the acid house ...

As Mike Pickering first strolled up to the decks at the Hacienda, it was a far cry from the dance music Mecca that would become known the world over. Instead of pounding house music, attendees were ...

There might be more famous figures to emerge from the Manchester music world but few have had their fingers in as many musical pies as Mike Pickering. Best known as a mainstay of the legendary ...

MICHAEL DAVID PICKERING Age 54 years, of Portage, passed away on Sunday, September 5, 2004. Michael was born on August 9, 1950 to Francis and Hazel Pickering, who preceded him in death. He was born ...

The ‘Brotherhood’ Definitive Edition box set will be out November 22; meanwhile Season 2 of ‘Transmissions, the definitive story of New Order and Joy Division’ just premiered Tony Wilson, who founded ...

Mike Pickering was fed up with listening to "absolute turgid indie bands playing rubbish music" when he stumbled across a sound that excited him. It was the mid-2000s, when he was working as an A&R ...