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One of the first things I want to do is a benefit for Addenbrookes Hospital as a tiny, tiny gesture of thanks for what they did for me." He also vowed to put his health woes behind him in 2015, saying: "As early as possible in the new year I want to get back on stage and play.
Johnson recently told how he hadn't been able to fully understand the success of Going Back Home, the collaboration album with Roger Daltrey that he thought would be his last. The current Feelgoods lineup offered moral support while he endured his 22-month battle with cancer, which ended with an all-clear diagnosis in October. The guitarist was a founding member of the Canvey Island outfit in 1971 but acrimoniously split with Lee Brilleaux, John Sparks and John 'The Big Figure' Martin six years later. Entitled I'm A Man: The Best Of The Wilko Johnson Years, it contains 11 studio tracks and five live recordings, all originally laid down by the original lineup between 19. (The Blues) Dr Feelgood's Wilko Johnson era is to be celebrated with a compilation album next month. Feelgood's Wilko Johnson Years Compilation Coming * Wilko Johnson plays Robin 2, Mount Pleasant, Bilston, on November 25 at 8pm. He now tours with former Blockheads bassist Norman Watt-Roy and drummer Dylan Howe, and it is with them that he will be performing at the Robin 2, Bilston. A self-confessed control freak’ in Dr Feelgood, he was now happy, he says, to take a back seat. What he does regret, he confides, is the ‘embarrassment’ of the ‘third generation’ of musicians – no original members among them – carrying on the Dr Feelgood name.Īfter leaving the band, Wilko played for a while with Ian Dury And The Blockheads.
His death was sad and tragic, but we were already apart,” he tells me. Official photography by Ian DicksonWilko Johnson Of Dr Feelgood 1977 Mens T-ShirtHeavy cotton classic fit adult Gildan t-shirt with taped neck and shoulders, pre-shrunk jersey knit and quarter-turned to. Available on a range of apparel with international shipping. “If we had wanted to do that there were many years in which we could have done it. Shop official Wilko Johnson Of Dr Feelgood 1977 Mens T-Shirt by Ian Dickson. There was to be no reunion with Brilleaux before the singer’s death from cancer in 1994. Then, with a refreshing note of realism, he adds sardonically: “That’s not really bad – terrible, the pressure of everyone telling you you’re great and giving you loads of money. It all puts a lot of pressure on you to do the next album.” “When it (the success of Dr Feelgood) happened, it happened very suddenly, touring America and stuff like that. It happened.”Įven at the height of their fame, sitting in a stretched limo on Fifth Avenue, he found himself wondering why he wasn’t happier. It’s something that happened and I just carried on. “If one of us walked into the room, the other walked out,” he reveals in his book.Īsked if he has any regrets about what happened, he says: “It’s not something I think about really. Increasing tensions between him and lead singer Lee Brilleaux seem to have caused the problem.
He was the driving force behind Dr Feelgood, yet managed to get himself thrown out of the band at the peak of their success. He was teetotal, yet dabbled in drugs his menacing onstage persona, restless pacing and machine-gun strumming, inspired many of the heroes of punk, yet his off-stage interests include poetry, painting and astronomy. Wilko has consistently defied pigeon-holing. I think the tangle in my mind would take more than a book to sort out.” “People seem to be enjoying this book and seem quite enthusiastic about it,” he agrees.īut asked if it had been a cathartic process, he responds typically bluntly: “I don’t think so. It was going to be a book of pictures, but it just grew and grew until it turned into an autobiography,” he admits of the tome that looks like a coffee-table book, but reads several cuts above your run-of-the-mill celebrity autobiography. We wanted some merchandise to sell alongside the CDs and the T-shirts. The age of 65, when men have traditionally collected their pensions and their bus passes, is a good time to look back on your life.Īnd Wilko Johnson, the one-time songwriter and guitarist of Dr Feelgood, who has been credited with inspiring many of the heroes of punk-rock, has done precisely that in the pithy, revealing, outspoken and thoroughly entertaining autobiography Looking Back At Me.īut, as with many things in Wilko’s life, the book seems to have come about more by luck than judgment.
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