Classic Rock

Wilko Johnson & John Otway

“I stopped feeling like a musician any more. I was just some old geezer stuck away in a room.”
Wilko Johnson

Wilko Johnson was a co-founder of the original Dr Feelgood, and left the band in 1977. Three years later he joined Ian Dury’s Blockheads, after which he pursued a solo career. In 2013 he was given months to live due to pancreatic cancer, but was reprieved after doctors removed a tumour. As he prepares to get back on the road, supported by John

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