WILKO JOHNSON
July 1947 – November 2022
Jaw clenched and eyes bulging. Skittering across the stage, bolt-upright and belligerent. Shouldering his black and red ’62 Tele in the style of a machine gun to mock-strafe the crowd. The sight of Wilko Johnson in full flight – a spectacle so visceral that only the antics of Pete Townshend come close – would have been electrifying at any point in rock ’n’ roll history. In the early 70s, when the presiding
