2 Jul 2016

Wilko Johnson: doctors, death and guitars

From Saturday Morning, 10:06 am on 2 July 2016
Wilko Johnson

Wilko Johnson was the guitarist in pre-punk British rock band Dr Feelgood, leaving to form the Solid Senders, then joining Ian Dury and the Blockheads. He now fronts the Wilko Johnson Band and collaborated in 2014 with The Who’s singer, Roger Daltrey, on the album Going Back Home. He writes about his life, and diagnosis of what appeared to be terminal pancreatic cancer, in the memoir Don’t You Leave Me Here (Little, Brown).