![]() 26 at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, and Johnson says they’re talking about trying to do more. Johnson and Daltrey - who’s donating his proceeds from “Going Back Home” to the British Teenage Cancer Trust he co-founded - played one show together on Feb. ![]() “Then last year, when Roger heard that I’ve got cancer, he came bouncing back and said, ‘We’ll do that album!’ I said, ‘Well, we better do it quick!’ And we did do it quick it took us about eight days.” And the two rock veterans decided to focus on hard-hitting versions of Johnson songs that reflected their shared passion for Johnny Kidd & the Pirates - including “Going Back Home’s” title track, which Johnson wrote in 1975 with Pirates’ guitarist Mick Green. “Roger suddenly said, ‘Y’know what? We should make an album together, and we did make some attempts to get it together, but it just never happened,” Johnson recalls. Johnson says he considered recording some of the originals with Daltrey, who he befriended at a British awards show about three years ago. But it’s nothing too sophisticated, I promise.” I started writing things before I got this cancer diagnosis, and after that I started realizing quite a lot of these songs were moaning on about time passing and doom - but don’t worry, they’re very simple, nothing philosophical! But I didn’t notice I was tending to think about clocks ticking and stuff like that. “They’re all typical of what I do,” Johnson says. It’s just three chords, you can call it what you want.Morris Day & The Time to Receive Legend Award At 2022 Soul Train Awards So we were sort of progenitors of punk, but not really ‘new’ anything. We started playing in pubs in 1973 and 74 and had a huge impact om especially, young men, who were forming bands themselves including the Sex Pistols and the Clash. Here’s Wilko Johnson’s definitive ruling on the matter: “ The term ‘pub rock’ describes a venue, not really a type of music. Many people got in touch to say that wasn't right and that Dr Feelgood was really a ‘pub rock’ band, a British music movement which pre-dates ‘new wave’ by about five years. When this reporter broke the story of Mr Chan ‘curing’ Wilko Johnson’s cancer in late 2013, I described Dr Feelgood as a ‘new wave’ band. Book tickets at £34 on The Town Hall website. Wilko Johnson and his band, supported by one of music’s great eccentrics John Otway, are at Cheltenham Town on Thursday, February 24. “When we were in the studio I just started playing it, and the producer said ’What’s that?’ With the band playing on it, it really did sound good, not miserable at all, really upbeat.” READ MORE: BrewDog set to open in Cheltenham next week I wasn’t writing it to record or perform, I just wrote it. I was sitting at home, the day was drawing to a close, and it’s about trying to ease a troubled mind. ![]() “There’s a single off the new album, Marijuana, which I wrote during the time I was expecting to die. Wilko Johnson's new album, Blow Your Mind (Image: Wilko Johnson) Mr Chan has realised that had Wilko truly had the cancer he’d been diagnosed with, he would not have been able to keep working as he did, so read up, examined him and persuaded him to see another specialist. Then, later on in the year, he knocked on my door in Southend and advised me to go and speak to the people at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, where they found they could cure it. Wilko said: “I’d met Charlie at a festival in the summer, and we spoke about the cancer and that was it. ![]() READ MORE: People condemn ‘sick and twisted’ woman for leaving note on carīut Mr Chan, a specialist cancer surgeon, and huge music fan, realised that Wilko had a different form of cancer - pancreatic neuroendocrine tumour - which was treatable, and went to visit the musician in Southend to tell him. He continued working but expected to have about 10 to 12 months to live. Wilko, who shot to fame as the amazingly kinetic (and slightly manic-looking) guitar player for Dr Feelgood in the 1970s had been diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer in late 2012. Were it not for the intervention of Cheltenham cancer specialist Charlie Chan, Wilko would probably not be alive today to play at the Town Hall later this month. And it’s a place that can say played its part in keeping him alive. One of British rock and roll’s greatest guitarists and characters Wilko Johnson is coming to Cheltenham. ![]()
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