Had the band been able to behave, he said, “I’m pretty sure we’d be multimillionaires.”
LONDON — Wilko Johnson, the guitarist with British blues-rock band Dr. Feelgood who had an unexpected career renaissance after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, has died. He was 75.A statement posted Wednesday on Johnson’s official social media accounts on behalf of his family said the musician died Monday evening at his home in southeast England.
Johnson helped give Dr. Feelgood a dangerous edge with his choppy, relentless guitar style and thousand-yard glare — a look terrifying enough to earn him a role later in life as silent executioner Ser Ilyn Payne on “Game of Thrones.” Johnson went on to perform with Ian Dury’s band the Blockheads, and spent years playing to a devoted fanbase, largely in the U.K. and Japan.
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