Who is this leperchaun looking old man The Polack keeps talking about? [View all]
Why am I obsessed? Well, I literally thought he had died.
No one in America reports on the health and welfare of a man who was a complete unknown. But Dr. Feelgood was a big deal I Japan in the 70s and my Japanese buddies were big Wilko Johnson fans when I was there in the 80s.
Then I saw him in 84.
If you ever get a chance to see him live you WILL be a fan.
Then I heard he had Pancreatic Cancer - so of course I thought he died.
That's what took my Dad and it took no time at all.
So I got curious one day and googled Wilko - found out he had a rare non-Metastatic strand of cancer and was still kicking - had a new record, had an older record he recorded in 8 days with Roger Daltrey back when he figured he had 10 months to live.
He told the BBC "To be honest when I thought that I was due to die any day - I lived the freest I had ever felt"
He can't sing worth shit - but his cool factor cannot be overestimated
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