Jon Zazula, the co-founder of influential heavy metal imprint Megaforce Records, died aged 69 on Tuesday 1st February 2022. In memoriam: Rock stars we've lost in 2022 Listen to Absolute Radio on DAB nationwide, on our free app, by hitting that play button on the bottom of your screen, via your smart speaker (“Play Absolute Radio”) and on Freeview, Sky, and Virgin Media TV. His last live show was at Planet Rock's Rocktober gig on 18th October 2022.Īll of us at Absolute Radio are thinking of Wilko's family, friends, and band members at this difficult time. They cured me."įollowing his treatment and album with Daltrey, Johnson went on to release his first album of new material in over 30 years with 2018's 'Blow Your Mind' and tour frequently, supporting Status Quo on their 'Frantic Four' tour. In October 2014, Johnson announced that he was cancer-free "This tumour weighed 3kg - that's the size of a baby! Anyway, they got it all. Feelgood's 'Stupidity', which hit No.1 in 1976.ĭespite his original terminal prognosis, a specialist surgeon later discovered that Johnson had a more benign form of cancer, and undertook radical 11 hour surgery on the rock legend. It entered the UK album chart at No.3, making it Daltrey's highest ranking album since The Who's 1981 'Face Dances', and Johnson's highest since Dr. The two recorded the critically-acclaimed covers album 'Going Back Home' in the space of just one week, with Johnson saying "I thought that was going to be the last thing I ever did." After the announcement and subsequent publicity, The Who frontman Roger Daltrey contacted Johnson expressing his desire to make an album with him. In 2013, Johnson revealed to the world that he had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer with nine or ten months to live, and announced the Wilko Johnson Farewell Tour. Looking daggers at people is what I do all the time, it's like second nature to me." On being cast in the role Johnson recalled: " They said they wanted somebody really sinister who went around looking daggers at people before killing them. Johnson's famous gimlet stare was employed in his role as mute executioner Ser Ilyn Payne in the first and second series of Game of Thrones, bringing him to a whole new audience. Wilko Johnson as executioner Ilyn Payne in Game of Thrones Over the course of the rest of the 80s, 90s and 00s, Johnson toured as a solo artist, before the 2009 Julien Temple Dr Feelgood documentary 'Oil City Confidential' brought him back to the public eye, and even more unexpectedly, to the attention of the producers of Game of Thrones. He went on to form Solid Senders, and The Wilko Johnson Band, as well as joining Ian Dury's Blockheads in 1980. Feelgood one of the pub rock scene's most successful bands.Īfter the success of Feelgood's first 4 albums 'Down by the Jetty', 'Malpractice', 'Stupidity' and 'Sneakin' Suspicion', all released in a frenetic two-year period between 19, Johnson left the band at the height of their popularity. Johnson's unique finger picking playing style and highly eccentric live persona, which saw him jerk across the stage like a gimlet-eyed musical robot helped make Dr. Feelgood, who became a staple of the 1970s pub rock scene. He returned to England and worked for a short time as an English teacher.Īfter his return he joined the band that would eventually become Dr. He studied English Language and Literature at university and after graduating travelled overland to Goa, India. Wilko Johnson was born John Peter Wilkinson in Canvey Island, Essex on 12th July 1947.
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