"It's quite a wonderful feeling - actually very, very intense."īut then something odd happened. "I've had many experiences of standing onstage in front of audiences and feeling that this could be the last time," Johnson says, laughing. So the duo decided to take the show on the road, including a performance at London's Royal Albert Hall. It was voted album of the year by Classic Rock magazine. The album did remarkably well in both the U.K. "There's a 70-year-old singer and a dying guitarist it's got so much energy, it's ridiculous!" Daltrey says, laughing. We did it very simply and I think that's reflected on this album."ĭaltrey thinks the album's title track says it all: The experience captured the spirit of going back to the vitality they had four decades ago. The two recorded Going Back Home in a mere eight days, which Daltrey says is one reason the album is so special: "A lot of today's music is made ponderously where people dissect it and they spend hours overdubbing and all this stuff. I'll have a bit of a retrospective of my songs.' " "But under the circumstance," Johnson says, "when we finally got to record it, I'm thinking, 'Right, well, this is the last thing I'll do. "You know Wilko," Daltrey says, " 'Let's not worry about what we're going to record, let's just go and record anything!' The most important thing of all if you have a year to live is to have some fun."Īt first, Johnson envisioned recording covers of American soul hits from the 1960s.
When Daltrey heard, he called Johnson immediately. Soon after, news of his diagnosis began to spread. Johnson opted against chemotherapy, deciding to just let the cancer take its course.
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