Northern Sold 10:18 Wed Nov 25
The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson
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What a great piece of film making that was about an absolutely remarkable man... well worth a gander...
http://www.radiotimes.com/film/dnrsks/imagine--imagine---the-ecstasy-of-wilko-johnson
In January 2013, 64-year-old guitarist Wilko Johnson, formerly of Canvey Island pub rock pioneers Dr Feelgood, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Refusing chemotherapy, he embraced the clarity brought on by his imminent demise and announced a farewell tour. Partisan director Julien Temple, whose documentaries have captured the Sex Pistols, Joe Strummer and Dr Feelgood (Oil City Confidential, in which Johnson shone), employs his usual expressionistic blending of interview and archive to create a film both esoteric and down-to-earth. Themed extracts from La Belle et la Bête, Orphée and The Seventh Seal sit comfortably with Johnson's love of poetry, literature and astronomy, an academic depth that belies his image as a duck-walking disciple of rock 'n' roll. His near-miraculous reprieve after surgery in 2014 gives the film its final act, which is as honest as the first, if more contemplative. This incredible, personal story about an inspirational, no-nonsense figure resonates far beyond the music scene it also thrillingly depicts.
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Slipkid
3:15 Thu Nov 26
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I met Wilko and his band in a restaurant in Cambridge in February of this year I think it was before he did the benefit show for Addenbrookes Hospital. Wilko introduced me to the surgeon as the 'man who saved my life'.
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SurfaceAgentX2Zero
1:00 Thu Nov 26
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So he got an extraordinarily gay strain of pancreatic cancer, right?
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Sydney_Iron
10:35 Thu Nov 26
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I absolutely love Wilko, from his music in the early days with the feelgoods to the man himself, an absolute legend.
Take a bow Sir
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Leonard Hatred
10:26 Thu Nov 26
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Just watched it.
Not bad, bit too much poetry and arty bollocks though.
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Alex Bunbury
12:27 Thu Nov 26
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He faked it? What utter nonsense.
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gank
10:33 Wed Nov 25
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Bumfukk Egypt? Sounds like my kind of place!
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panamahat
9:25 Wed Nov 25
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For those of us who live in the middle of bumfukk egypt , would this be on Youtube ?
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Hammer and Pickle
9:23 Wed Nov 25
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VirginiaHam 9:18 Wed Nov 25
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VirginiaHam
9:18 Wed Nov 25
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stomper 8:47 Wed Nov 25
I have the utmost respect.
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stomper
9:15 Wed Nov 25
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"BBC iPlayer TV programmes are available to play in the UK only. "
Fuck
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Northern Sold
8:52 Wed Nov 25
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06qqrk9
Should be on there stomper son... enjoy
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stomper
8:47 Wed Nov 25
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I find him bloody inspiring. I totally understand the feeling that your dying you prepare yourself for death and assess your life.You come to terms with it.
Ive been face to face with the grim Reaper a couple of times and when you survive its anticlimatic somehow.
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stomper
8:40 Wed Nov 25
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Anyone got a link that will work in the States?
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gank
6:05 Wed Nov 25
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*proof, not Prof. Don Logan = The Prof
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gank
6:05 Wed Nov 25
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And it would be more prof than selling tickets under the guise of a 'farewell, cruel world' tour three times over.
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Northern Sold
5:26 Wed Nov 25
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I wonder if they pickled his 3 kg lump?? I'd love to have it on my sideboard... would speak more sense than Golden Oldie that's for sure...
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gank
4:00 Wed Nov 25
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Any Old Iron, how come this has touched such a raw nerve with you?
Sounds like you WANT him to have cancer.
You sicko.
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Any Old Iron
3:24 Wed Nov 25
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Gank, never mind your daft cock waving analogy. You're clearly a top drawer cunt.
I've read some shit on this forum over the last few days but your comments take the biscuit.
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Hammer and Pickle
1:09 Wed Nov 25
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I take it your cock has a distinctive lead style gank.
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gank
12:58 Wed Nov 25
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If they're still alive, I could probably track down the surgeon who scarred my penis some 35 years ago, although I doubt he or she would say that!
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ohgodno
12:56 Wed Nov 25
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gank 12:51 Wed Nov 25
I'll believe your sword fight story when the countries top penis surgeon, and head of the Penile Sword Fighting injury unit, is in papers describing how glad he is to have saved your penis because he is a huge fan of it.
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