“I hope we’ll have something done before I go,” he poignantly concluded. Wilko Johnson, legendary guitarist with Dr Feelgood, and Roger Daltrey, lead singer of rock giants the Who release a joint album GOING BACK HOME on the. Unsurprisingly Johnson appears to be confounding doctors who predicted he would ‘be dead by October’, and added that he hopes he will ‘last into next year’. So there’s not going to be any cancer dirges.” The music I want to continue to make, I think, generally should be a laugh not a cry. “I wrote some songs right after getting this diagnosis. “There are a few more things I want to record,” Johnson stated. M ooted three or four years ago and finally put together in a week last autumn, Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey's collaboration album sees them take on 10 Johnson originals and a cover. Feelgood who had an unexpected career renaissance after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, has died. Since receiving the news and announcing that he did not want to undergo treatment for the disease, Johnson concluded a ‘farewell’ tour of the UK at the Bingley Festival earlier this month, and is now recording with Daltrey after the pair met at an awards ceremony. LONDON - Wilko Johnson, the guitarist with British blues-rock band Dr. Johnson outlined his intentions during a chat with the Mirror newspaper, as he continues to focus on music following his pancreatic cancer diagnosis this year. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson is to record a final album of new material with The Who‘s Roger Daltrey. Johnson penned the handful of originals not long after receiving his terminal diagnosis, but there isnt a shred of self-pity or sadness here.
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