![]() The foundations of his return into the public conversation were laid in 2010, when Julien Temple’s masterly, necessary Oil City Confidential brought him and his band back from obscurity. ![]() ‘I’m supposed to be dead,’ was his catchphrase by November. When he was given the news by his doctor, Wilko was told that he had until October to live. In January 2013, Johnson announced that he had been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer, and was travelling the country in a final farewell, having, at the last minute, been served up his moment in the sun. He changed his name partly because he hated his dad, a Stepney émigré to Canvey Island in Essex, and partly to stand out as a performer. Wilko Johnson was also born John Wilkinson. Johnny Wilkinson worshippers, outside the car window but a million miles away from the three of us inside, who were travelling to the uncanny rhythm of his inverted namesake, the Feelgood’s machine-gunning guitarist, Wilko Johnson. Outside the window, men and boys, the intermittent woman, wandered en masse to the rugby. Feelgood on a tinny system slipping the motor along like warfarin-doped blood through a vein - until progress was dented by a careless entry into Twickenham. Ī Journey Through Estuary Myth and Identityĭad at the wheel, we sped from Walthamstow to Portsmouth. This ebook is part of a series from Influx Press called Insights. Going Back Home: A Journey Through Estuary Myth and Identityįlatness, Blank Spaces, and Making Something out of Nothing: Southend and Estuary Dwelling, or An Unfinished Ode To Mud ![]() This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Subject to statutory exception and to provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Influx Press. The right of Lee Rourke & Tim Burrows to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with section 77 of the copyright, designs and patent act 1988. Copyright of the text rests with the authors. ![]()
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