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The record company found us eight days in the studio and this was in the 11th month after my diagnosis so I was already in extra time and we used all my songs as it would be a nice way of being remembered. And then when the news came out about my cancer and impending death Roger got back in touch and said вЂwe should do that albumвЂ™ and I said вЂwe had better do it quickвЂ™ and we did do it quick. I knew I was going to die, I had nothing left to prove so I was just playing, I was in that moment, you don't have to worry about next year's tax bill because it ain't going to happen, we are just going to play some rock 'n' roll and in front of audiences like that it was just great.вЂќДЄs part of this farewell year he recorded a great album with Roger Daltrey вЂ“ Going Back Home, I asked him how this came about вЂњI didn't know Roger at all really but I had a chance encounter with him and we got talking and he suggested it but it just got put on the shelf, it didn't happen. We talk about his farewell tour, I caught it at the Holmfirth Picturedrome and it was a very emotionally charged show, in both directions вЂњduring that year we had some incredible gigs because of the situation and the people, quite moving.

The first time I saw Wilko was that the Reading Festival in 1979 with his band the Solid Senders, it seemed an odd choice to play there вЂњI don't sit down and say I want to play at this place or that, all these sides of the industry are a complete mystery to me, the car turns up and I say вЂwhere are we going?вЂ™ and we might be going to Ashby-de-la-Zouch or we might be going to Heathrow, what else can you do?вЂќ In 2013 it was announced that, thanks to a second opinion and subsequent life-saving surgery, he was now cancer-free, вЂњIвЂ™m supposed to be deadвЂќ he regularly tells interviewers.Д¬onsidering all of this I ask him how he is вЂњI am as fit as a fiddle, thank you very much, walking round and round in circles though and as for my brain, well, it is impossible to tell at this stage of the game but I am trying to maintain a level of dignityвЂќ he responds jovially, вЂњI am a senior citizen after all!вЂќ And rock 'n' roll royalty to boot! Having been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer in late 2012, and despite the doctors' prognosis, he continued to tour and perform with vigour and a zest for life usually seen in much younger people. вЂњWell if you're in Manchester that's a pretty good name for your website thenвЂќ says Wilko Johnson after I explain where I am from, I can tell nothing is going to catch him out, this is his first interview of the day. We managed to catch a few minutes with the man himself a couple of months back:

Being on deaths door a few years ago it seems remarkable yet kind of spooky that former Dr Feelgood/Blockheads guitarist Wilko Johnson is celebrating his 70th birthday on 12th July 2017.

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