Former Dr. Feelgood guitarist Wilko Johnson is to record a final album of new material with The Who‘s Roger Daltrey.
Johnson outlined his intentions during a chat with the Mirror newspaper, as he continues to focus on music following his pancreatic cancer diagnosis this year.
Since receiving the news and announcing that he did not want to undergo treatment for the disease, Johnson concluded a ‘farewell’ tour of the UK at the Bingley Festival earlier this month, and is now recording with Daltrey after the pair met at an awards ceremony.
“There are a few more things I want to record,” Johnson stated. “I wrote some songs right after getting this diagnosis. It won’t be morbid, though. I can’t have any truck with that. The music I want to continue to make, I think, generally should be a laugh not a cry. So there’s not going to be any cancer dirges.”
Unsurprisingly Johnson appears to be confounding doctors who predicted he would ‘be dead by October’, and added that he hopes he will ‘last into next year’. “I hope we’ll have something done before I go,” he poignantly concluded.