![]() I dunno, if that communicated something positive for people, that’s marvellous, but I didn’t intend to.” Sometimes the insights and ecstasies and whatever were so intense, I’d think, ‘Man, this is almost worth it!’ One of the ways I dealt with it was to absolutely accept it, and think: ‘Right, they’ve told me this thing is inoperable – if I’ve got 10 months to live, I just want to do it, I don’t want to spend 10 months running around after second opinions or false hopes.’ In a way, it was a kind of comfort zone, accepting that I was going to die and all the questions of mortality had been sorted out for me. “I didn’t plan to feel that way about death,” he says. #WILKO JOHNSON TUMPR SERIES#Promoting a farewell tour, he gave a series of interviews that provoked not an outpouring of public sympathy, but something approaching a weird envy: we should all be so lucky to face imminent death with the kind of calm, philosophical acceptance that Johnson displayed. Then, in early 2013, he announced that he had terminal pancreatic cancer. He was already a cult figure in the rock world: a founder member of Canvey Island’s celebrated punk precursors Dr Feelgood, whose unwavering devotion to old-fashioned rhythm and blues and taut, explosive guitar playing had inspired everyone from Paul Weller to Joe Strummer of the Clash. ![]() But that’s precisely what Johnson seems to have become, thanks to what he calls “the twists and turns of the last two or three years”. Still, good company or not, he doesn’t look much like a candidate for national treasurehood, or “a 100-1 shot for the title of Greatest Living Englishman”, the latter bestowed on him by a Guardian critic a few years ago. ![]()
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