![]() Wilko Johnson, Roger Daltrey Record Album Pete Mitchell talks to Roger Daltrey this Saturday at 10pm on Absolute Radio.Claire Collins Appointed Head of Music For SXSW Sydney It is safe to say that there is more to come from Roger and Wilko. And I can sing any style he wants so, it would be just as much a Who album as Who’s Next or Quadrophenia”. You know because I know whatever he writes will be good because he’s such a great writer. I like it when you turn people’s heads the other way. If he writes a load of jazz songs I'd say ‘Let’s go out and record them.’ I mean Pete has a kind of a mental image of what The Who are and I don’t. And you know I’d like to make another record. We’re hoping to start the beginning of the long goodbye tour at the end of the year. Does he plan to carry on? “Well we’ve got to stop one day obviously. So what about Rogers own band The Who, they are celebrating their 50th Anniversary. It all sounds like a film script - and by all accounts Wilko will be back singing and playing soon. "Oh my God! What do you do? And so you know he just said, 'I’m going for the surgery.' And he’s had the surgery, they removed half his stomach, they removed his spleen, his pancreas, some of his intestines, but he’s still here, spoke to him yesterday.” I felt so sorry for him in some ways because there you are coming to terms with his end and then you have a choice. I think I can try this and I think, if you do survive the operation, you’ll have a good prognosis.' So Wilko being the guy he is, because he already accepted death went ahead. 'I don’t know whether you’ll survive the operation, but I’d like to have a try. "'I’d like to have a try at removing it,' he said. It would have stopped his heart working and everything else working but it would have been a slower process. So they ran some tests and they realised it wasn’t in the pancreas, it was on the outside of it and it would have killed him. "Anyway so he said, 'I don’t think you’ve got another form of cancer and I want to do some tests on you'. We used to try and get it make noises but it stayed silent," said Roger. ![]() Now this thing inside him was by now, at that time, it was bigger than a grapefruit. So he got in touch with Wilko and said: "I’ve got a feeling you might have a different kind of cancer." He thought, 'Well this is strange because if he really did have what they said he had he should be dead. The story took on another surreal twist recently after a fan was listening to an interview about the album who happened to be a cancer surgeon. ![]() In January 2013 he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and told he had just months to live. The fact that Wilko is still around is a miracle in itself. We had no expectations of this record whatsoever when we went in to make it, didn’t even have a record deal. I went into the studio another four afternoons and laid the vocals and here it is. We went into the studio for four afternoons, did the backing tracks. “During 2013 Wilko had decided to do a lot of touring so he was out on the road and he sent me a load of songs. Wilko and indeed Pete Townshend developed their styles from that because of the need to fill the gap,” Daltry explains. ![]() Mainly because they didn’t have a rhythm guitar in the band, just a base guitar and drums. "People like Jimmy Page was impressed by him, everybody kind of idolised Mick Green because he developed his own style where he played rhythm and lead guitar all at the same time. The main influence was a guy called Johnny Kidd and the Pirates and the guitarist in that band was a guy called Mickey Green. ![]() And, uh, we ended up with the same person basically. We were at the Mojo awards and we sat at the same table and we were having a laugh and a joke and talking about the past and all the people that influenced us as bands. I asked him where the idea for a duet began. Roger daltrey wilko johnson awards full#Roger is full of enthusiasm for the project. This album would not sound out of place in 1963/4. ![]()
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