MICK GREEN
Wilko Johnson on the first time he heard The Pirates’ chief six-stringer.
Mick
Green: “How does he do all that?” wondered a young Wilko Johnson.
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It was a Saturday, I know, because Saturday Club was on, which was a programme on at midday on the BBC, which was one of the only bits of pop music that you would hear then – it was before pirate radio even. Anyway, I was walking across the room and Brian Matthew said: ‘This is Johnny Kidd And The Pirates’, and it was their new record I’ll Never Get Over You. I heard the guitar and I just sort of stopped in mid-stride, and when the solo came in I just thought: ‘This is fantastic, it sounds just brilliant.’