Fondly remembered this month…
WILKO JOHNSON
Fiery Feelgoods guitarist 1947-2022
Manon the Tele: live withDr Feelgood, LA, March 23, 1976
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WILKO Johnson was resurrected several times in his later years. In 2009, Julien Temple’s Dr Feelgood documentary Oil City Confidential rescued the band’s guitarist from career oblivion, reminding viewers of his electricshock stage presence and poetic mind. Ironically, a terminal cancer diagnosis in 2013 would raise his career to even greater heights, as people began to realise what might be lost. “I could contrive to feel miserable in the Garden of Eden,” he later reflected. “Whereas, the valley of the shadow of death – it’s not all downside!”