I've been through a lot of great things in my life, so, yeah, I'm pretty pleased with myself. ![]() I'm just trying to kind of wrap my life up, and I've had a good time. There's no point in speculating about the future, because the future's not there - blimey, I'm getting philosophical! But I don't have any desperate, unfulfilled ambitions or that kind of thing. It's kind of a different way of living you really do have to dig the moment you're in and enjoy the present because that's all there is. "Obviously you go up and down sometimes it's a lovely day and it's such a buzz to be alive, and then of course you find yourself at 3 o'clock in the morning sometimes going, 'Oh, help me!' Your moods change. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey play Going Back Home and Some Kind of Hero live at the Shepherds Bush Empire in London on 25 February 2014. "I can't arrange things too far in the future 'cause I don't know whether that future will exist, so we have to do things kind of step by step," Johnson continues. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 6, 2014. The title song Going Back Home sounds like it should come from the deep south, especially with the mouth organ pulsating through the middle of the song. He's even considering getting back into the studio to record new material. This is noticeable most acutely on Marijuana the first single from Blow Your Mind and a work that’s undoubtedly been inspired by Wilko’s battle with pancreatic cancer. Id not known Wilko Johnson before this album but his playing is superior. I'm still alive, so maybe I can get something more done." ![]() "I was gonna make a final album of my own and, anyway, this Roger Daltrey thing was what we did and it's done rather well, so I don't know. Blow Your Mind benefits from that delay, as Johnson had the time to write 12 solid senders while his band continued to settle. "I have written some new songs this year," Johnson tells Billboard. Julien Temple's 2015 documentary The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson, which chronicled the guitarist's illness and comeback, sealed the deal on the revival, but Johnson didn't get a chance to cut a brand-new record until 2018. Feelgood and Ian Dury's Blockheads used that gift of time to work with The Who's Roger Daltrey on his new release, Going Back Home. Legendary music artist Wilko Johnson was given 10 months to live when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in early 2013.
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