And neither does Johnson, who with his signature red and black Telecaster at hand continues to perform despite the specter of his diagnosis. While it may be the last of his lifetime the album, which save for a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window” is comprised of ten Johnson originals from throughout his career, offers no maudlin farewells. Diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer last January he seems to have taken the news as but further incentive to cherish the here and now, embarking on a string of live gigs and teaming up with fellow rhythm-and-blues connoisseur Roger Daltrey on the runaway hit LP, Going Home. Johnson continues to play music for fun just as he did in those early days, even as he approaches his final ones. “We just wanted to play that good old music, and we did and it got successful.” Feelgood emerged with the sort of vengeance and back-to-basics vitality that the punk movement would espouse only a few short years later, earning a reputation as an indefatigable live act armed with raw, ecstatic blasts of rhythm and blues. “It wasn’t fashionable or anything, what we were doing,” says Johnson. Out of the industrial malaise that characterized the band’s native Essex in the early seventies Dr. It was in fact a few years later that again we started a band, Dr. “When I was real young I just played in bands because it was great fun,” says Wilko Johnson, recalling, “It wasn’t one of my ambitions to be a musician.
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