#WILKO JOHNSON LIVE AT KOKO DVD TV#

Having since comfortably outlived the six months his doctor gave him, this is one false farewell that should make everyone happy. This Sunday night show was overflowing with fans and good feeling, and Wilko responded with his most ferocious playing in years. On the evening of 10 March 2013, Koko opened its doors to 1,500 music fans who knew they were about to witness an extraordinary event. The farewell tour that followed was, though, joyous. Cadiz Music are delighted to announce the release of the Live At Koko, CamdenTown, London, March 2013 from Wilko Johnson on DVD Cat No. His cancer diagnosis in December 2012 seemed grim news.

Wilko Johnson’s unexpected second coming had begun with Oil City Confidential, Julien Temple’s 2009 documentary about Essex R&B band Dr Feelgood, for which Johnson was guitarist. Wilko Johnson Koko, London, 10 March 2013 Sixx has dubbed the arrangement “genius marketing”. Nikki Sixx’s LA hair-metallers have stoked interest in their next world tour, and acknowledged the way everyone from Meat Loaf to Barbra Streisand enjoy repeated, money-hoovering “farewells”, by signing a “legally binding” contract to never tour again after 2015. Five days later, Presley ended his last show with “Hurt”, introduced his father to the crowd, and reluctantly left the stage. Elvis looked like “a creature from a Hollywood monster film,” his biographer Peter Guralnick wrote of the tragically swollen figure the footage showed, although singing “Unchained Melody”, Guralnick still saw a kind of “grace”.

#WILKO JOHNSON LIVE AT KOKO DVD TV#

Three weeks before Presley’s death on August 16 1977, two Midwest gigs were filmed for a TV special. Whether because of the death of young lighting director Bill Duffield early in the tour or her studio-based perfectionism, Bush quit touring almost as soon as she’d brilliantly begun.Įlvis Presley Market Square Arena, Indianapolis, June 26 1977 This was also her last tour, with only guest spots since (singing “Comfortably Numb” with David Gilmour was the last to date, in 2002). She danced, sang (often inside a velvet-lined, womb-representing egg), and changed costumes and characters 17 times, alongside magicians and poetry. “The most magnificent spectacle ever encountered in the world of rock,” Melody Maker declared after Kate Bush’s first tour, an ambitious theatrical spectacle, precisely planned by the 20-year-old. Wilko Johnson, British rock guitarist and 'Game of Thrones' actor, dies at 75 Novem/ 9:41 AM / AP Wilko Johnson, the guitarist with British blues-rock band Dr.

Wilko johnson live at koko dvd