“I had to register hatred and violence,” he reflects of the role.
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Post-Feelgoods, he helmed the Solid Senders (“a situation Lucrezia Borgia would have been at home in”), joined The Blockheads (whose leader Ian Dury “could be the most offensive person I have ever encountered”), hung out with fellow speed freak Lemmy (“he had a kind of twisted wisdom”) and later added acting to his CV, playing Ser Ilyn Payne in TV series Game Of Thrones. “I always admired Lee,” he writes, “although he was four years younger than me, from the very first he seemed to have a maturity and self-possession that made him a natural leader.” As for the group’s stage show, it was “a double act between me and Lee, he would be the gang leader and I his lieutenant with a gun”.īut during the making of their fourth album, ’77’s Sneakin’ Suspicion, tensions between the amphetamine-fuelled Johnson and the rest of the band (who were by now heavy drinkers) led to him being forced to leave. Wilko Johnson opens up about his asbestos throat, meeting Lemmy and coming to terms with staying alive. Looking Back At Me is the autobiography of the guitarist Wilko Johnson, written and collated with acclaimed rock writer Zoë Howe. Born John Wilkinson in 1947 on Canvey Island, he followed the 60s hippie trail to Afghanistan and India, then on his return taught English in an Essex comprehensive and concurrently formed back-to-basics R&B outfit Dr Feelgood with Lee Collinson (soon to be Brilleaux), his spiky machine gun guitar riffs lighting up the pub rock scene and paving the way for punk.
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