{"id":1749487,"date":"2022-11-23T12:17:52","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1749487"},"modified":"2022-11-23T12:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-23T17:17:55","slug":"famed-rocker-wilko-johnson-from-dr-feelgood-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/famed-rocker-wilko-johnson-from-dr-feelgood-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Famed Rocker Wilko Johnson From Dr. Feelgood Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffamed-rocker-wilko-johnson-from-dr-feelgood-dies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1749487&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Famed rock musician Wilko Johnson, who played guitar with the group Dr. Feelgood and later had a part in the TV series \u201cGame of Thrones,\u201d died on Monday at the age of 75 after a remarkable battle fighting pancreatic cancer.<\/p>\n<p>As far back as 2012, Johnson, whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aBBfVBqQif8\">choppy style of playing the guitar<\/a> became famous, was diagnosed as terminal and told he would live less than a year, but he later had a huge six-pound tumor removed and was termed \u201ccancer free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the announcement we never wanted to make, &#038; we do so with a very heavy heart: Wilko Johnson has died,\u201d Johnson\u2019s Twitter feed posted on Wednesday morning. \u201cHe passed away at home on Monday 21st November. Thank you for respecting the family\u2019s privacy at this very sad time. RIP Wilko Johnson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the announcement we never wanted to make, &#038; we do so with a very heavy heart: Wilko Johnson has died. He passed away at home on Monday 21st November. Thank you for respecting the family&#8217;s privacy at this very sad time. RIP Wilko Johnson.<br \/>(Image: Leif Laaksonen) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1cRqyi9b9X\">pic.twitter.com\/1cRqyi9b9X<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wilko Johnson (@wilkojohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wilkojohnson\/status\/1595358840400248832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the time of Johnson\u2019s terminal cancer diagnosis, his manager, Robert Hoy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-11461117\/Wilko-Johnson-dies-aged-75-following-pancreatic-cancer-battle.html\">stated,<\/a> \u201cHe said he wants to make the very best of the time he has left, playing and partying when he can. He is currently in good spirits and is not yet suffering any physical effects and can expect to enjoy at least another few months of reasonable health and activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/wilko-johnson-game-thrones-actor-dr-feelgood-guitarist-dies-75-rcna58518\">told AP<\/a>, \u201cI suddenly found myself in a position where nothing matters anymore. I\u2019m a miserable so-and-so normally \u2026 I\u2019d be worrying about the taxman or all the things that we worry about that get in the way of the real things. And suddenly it doesn\u2019t matter. All of that doesn\u2019t matter.<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cYou walk down the street and you feel intensely alive. You\u2019re \u2018Oh, look at that leaf!\u2019 You\u2019re looking around and you think, \u2018I\u2019m alive. Ain\u2019t it amazing?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat year thinking my life was at an end was one of the greatest years of my life,\u201d Johnson recalled in 2017. \u201cThe way I handled it was at all times to understand. \u2018Yes, I\u2019m gonna die\u2019 but don\u2019t sit there wishing you aren\u2019t gonna die because we\u2019re all gonna die. I never felt self-pity. I was never in tears all that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking out at thousands and thousands of people [at Fuji Rock in Japan] and they all know you\u2019re gonna die\u2026 oh man. I\u2019m gonna die, but it\u2019s alright. What a high,\u201d he continued, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s hard to know there are people suffering from cancer who don\u2019t survive, and then me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson appeared with Dr. Feelgood on various albums, including \u201cDown by the Jetty,\u201d \u201cMalpractice,\u201d \u201cSneakin\u2019 Suspicion,\u201d and \u201cStupidity.\u201d He later created the band Solid Senders before joining The Blockheads.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson later played silent executioner Ser Ilyn Payne on \u201cGame of Thrones.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed rock musician Wilko Johnson, who played guitar with the group Dr. Feelgood and later had a part in the TV series \u201cGame of Thrones,\u201d died on Monday at the age of 75 after a remarkable battle fighting pancreatic cancer. As far back as 2012, Johnson, whose choppy style of playing the guitar became famous, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1749490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1749487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1749490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1749487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1749487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1749487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}