#THE ECSTASY OF WILKO JOHNSON WATCH ONLINE FULL#
Having now watched the full 90 minutes, I can say I enjoyed it (particularly the second half) but I suspect it won’t be everyone’s ‘cup of tea’. I suspect the film sponsors were totally surprised to be continuing the film to include his re-diagnosis, his surgery and the beginning of his recuperation (I suspect Wilko was more surprised though).
He also decided to do a ‘final’ gig teaming up with Roger Daltrey (The Who) – you can watch this from a link below. The first half of the film is really about a man who thinks he is going to die, and he doesn’t really have an issue with this – he misses out on all the usual emotions moving straight to acceptance. Until I saw the film on BBC1 a few days ago, I hadn’t realised the film was even being made. He later did a benefit concert to raise funds for the hospital. Wilko went back to Cambridge to thank his surgeon (Emmanuel Huget) and team. However, the ‘double speak’ is also being used in his case as nearly all reports and news articles state he has Pancreatic Cancer. However, it was a large tumour (7 lbs 8oz in weight and the size of a melon) and the surgery was ‘extreme’ taking 11 hours and with a lower-than-normal chance of survival. To cut a long story short, he was retested and re-diagnosed with Neuroendocrine Cancer with a primary in the pancreas. One year later, a photographer friend Charlie Chan (who just happened to be a doctor) commented that he looked too well and was still doing his routine and fast-paced musical performance, that something was perhaps not right about this diagnosis. In 2014, Wilko was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer and was told he had a year to live. His selection for this part was based on his ‘piercing 1000-yard stare’ which he is famous for effecting during his on-stage performance (in real life he’s actually known for being a warm, funny person prone to laughter). He plays Ser Ilyn Payne in the first and second series, but his character was written out after his diagnosis. He made his acting debut in Game of Thrones. He was once also part of the Blockheads group supporting Ian Dury. Wilko is a former member of Dr Feelgood, a famous British R&B band who were pretty popular in the 60s/70s/80s and remains so today. No sooner had I published the Nick Robinson article, I was alerted to the broadcasting of a film about rock star Wilko Johnson who has the most amazing story to tell. This is exactly what happened to Steve Jobs and Aretha Franklin. I wrote about this anatomical issue here. Annoying, we shouldn’t need to dig as he doesn’t have Lung Cancer. As I said in that article, sometimes with Neuroendocrine Cancer – the devil is in the detail and you just need to dig to find it. However, in the usual media ‘double speak’ which can sometimes pervade the coverage of such events, he is said to have Lung Cancer. I recently blogged about a well-known BBC political reporter who has Neuroendocrine Cancer with a Lung Primary.
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