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"They're the people who told me I was going to be dead by now, so I haven't been back to them for another estimate." He is not tired, he says, and is in no great pain. "I declined any treatment" Wilko hasn't seen his doctors since his diagnosis. We’re going to Japan next week, and I’m just thinking, Right, I just want to be okay for that, for that two or three weeks.” I’ll think about April when April comes – if it comes. His manager says they hope to play in Ireland next month. I had to think, Do I want to spend 10 years in a garret, perfecting my technique, or do I want to go on a ride in a Cadillac and get all the girls?" But I had to choose between painting and rock'n'roll. Some of his paintings appear in his autobiography. , and he once considered being a painter. You’re not dying.’ So what is there to say? There’s nothing to say.” I mean, there’s no help anyone can bring to me.
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What oft is thought but ne’er so well express’d. “I’ve got a lot of Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton in my head that I can recite to myself at any time.” Does he find any comfort in it? “Not comfort, no. Wilko studied medieval literature at university and briefly taught English. So it’s still there – but you can’t walk around with a soppy grin on your face all the time.” “On the way here today I was in a kind of rapture looking out at this beautiful winter’s day, thinking I’m alive, I’m alive when I’m supposed to have been dead. Wilko says a euphoria overcame him when he got his diagnosis, and it’s a feeling that has stayed with him. “There’s no point in stopping, because if you stop what you do is sit at home and start dwelling on it.” It was a little bit nerve-racking, doing a gig like that, a one-off thing that we just got together,” he says.
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Onstage, they laughed as Daltrey held his microphone to Wilko’s stomach. They performed together at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire, in west London, last month, to rave reviews. He and Daltrey recorded the album over eight days in November. I just don’t know how long I’m going to live.” And in fact the first thing that I’ve done with my extra time is I’ve made the album with Roger Daltrey. I was supposed to have been dead in October. “I did think this year would be a tapering-down, but the plan is to just keep going until it hits me. Man in black: Wilko Johnson with Dr Feelgood in 1975. Because it's BC, he is working on an updated version. Now, at the age of 66, Wilko defines the entire period before his diagnosis as BC – before cancer – when he lived his life on different terms. , that is already a bestseller on Amazon, even though it has been available only to preorder. In November Wilko recorded an album with Roger Daltrey, Going Back Home His drummer and manager sit on a sofa, discussing tour dates that reach as far into the future as August. In the small dressing room backstage, Wilko is sitting on a stool with his back to the mirror, dressed in his customary black suit, black shirt and black boots. I meet him just before he plays a concert in England. The months passed, and he found he had no reason to slow down. Told he had less than a year to live, the renowned guitarist, a founding member of Dr Feelgood, immediately embarked on a farewell tour. Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in January last year.