There’s nothing better to focus the mind than a time limit and the possibility of death any day. Recorded at Yellowfish Studios, deep in the Sussex countryside and produced by Manic Street Preachers long-time producer Dave Eringa, Daltrey lets rip, sounding very comfortable in going back to his R&B roots, singing to a batch of songs written by Johnson over the course of his life, many of them consciously and thematically harking back to his young man days, when it seemed that girls were always on ones’ mind… Even the length of the album, a little less than 35 minutes was how it was back in the 60s and 70s golden days of vinyl.Īpparently done in a rush, the album has perhaps benefited from this. Perhaps the combination of impending death and a sudden hit has no doubt left him scratching his bald pate, in wonder at this crazy world. This most efficient and ruthless of diseases, even by the standards of cancer, hasn’t claimed him as yet and in fact seems to have stabilised, allowing Johnson to gig here and there and carry on living his normal existence. Johnson, rather miraculously, is alive and well (as well as he ever was…), having been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer over a year ago. ![]() Feelgood, who at their height reached number one in the album charts with Stupidity, a live album released in 1976.ģ8 years later, Johnson may be about to enjoy his second number one album, ‘Going Back Home’, with Roger Daltrey on mic duties instead of the late Lee Brilleaux. Although both qualify for bus passes these days and are only four years apart in age, fame came to them in different decades, Daltrey idolised at an early age with The Who, while Johnson only came through a decade later with the pre-punk, pub-rocking Dr. ![]() What an inspired coupling! The vocals of Roger Daltrey and the Telecaster guitar of Wilko Johnson.
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