![]() (His doctors told him he was only going to make it until October 2013, but he’s defied all their predictions and is still performing.) ![]() Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2012, he’s been grabbing at as many opportunities as possible to make and record the music he loves while he can. While Johnson left the band soon after their fourth album, he’s never left the style of music he played with them behind. Feelgood for their formative years was guitarist and primary songwriter Wilko Johnson. Feelgood, the band who impressed everyone from Johnny Rotten to Richard Hell with their rawness and intensity, they looked to the blues and R&B for their inspiration. So when four guys from Canvey Island (about 30 miles east of London up the Thames River in England) decided to formed Dr. ![]() No matter what was being played on the popular music stations or rising high in the charts, the blues seemed to always be hanging around the fringes, ready to raise its head when people wanted to hear something a little more rebellious than what was normally available. They also entrenched their style of music into British pop culture. ![]() While most of them went on to become part of the music establishment, at the time their music was considered rebellious and dangerous by the establishment. The Animals, Led Zeppelin, The Yardbirds, The Kinks, and The Rolling Stones (yes they started off as a blues band, listen to their early albums) were just a few of those whose careers were shaped by the blues. The early 1960s saw the rise of an incredible number of blues-based rock and roll bands in, of all places, the British Isles. ![]()
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