Wilko Johnson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: July 12, 1947
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 21, 2022
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Oil City Confidential
Overview: Director Julien Temple's film celebrates Canvey Island's Dr Feelgood, the Essex R 'n' B band that exploded out of the UK in the prog era of the early Seventies, delivering shows and albums that helped pave the way for pub rock and punk.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-20
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The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson
Overview: The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson confronts our worst nightmares of impending death and turns them upside down. It tells the extraordinary, yet universal story of legendary musician Wilko Johnson who, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given a few months to live, accepted his fate with uplifting positivity and embarked on a farewell tour, capturing the imagination of the world as he went. But like every good story Wilko's has a damn fine twist in its tail. Two years later and confounding the odds, Wilko wakes up in a hospital bed, unexpectedly sentenced to live, having now to integrate those enlightened lessons learnt under sentence of death into the unexpected and ongoing future of his life.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-17
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Evidently... John Cooper Clarke
Overview: A look at the life of John Cooper Clarke. From his rise as a 'punk poet', through his heroin addiction, and finally to his comeback.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-05-30
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Punk Britannia at the BBC
Overview: An archive celebration of studio performances from the British bands that broke through courtesy of punk between 1975 and 1982. Starting with Dr Feelgood and Eddie and the Hot Rods and culminating in Gang of Four, with performances from Top of the Pops, The Old Grey Whistle Test, Something Else and other shows by The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, The Damned, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees and many more. Hey ho, let's go!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-06-08
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Dr. Feelgood - All Through the City (with Wilko 1974-1977)
Overview: Dr. Feelgood are considered both the pioneers of the 70s punk wave as well as the epitome of the so-called pub rock, the antithesis to the stadium rock. And yet the band was so much more.This DVD contains 23 great Dr. Feelgood tunes, featuring Wilko Johnson, spanning 1974-1977. Seminal, crucial and 100% Rock & Roll.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-15
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In a Silent Way
Overview: A film crew crisscrosses England trying to unravel the mystery surrounding a record released 30 years earlier, 'Spirit of Eden', that defined the passage from light to shadow of its makers, the band Talk Talk and its lead singer Mark Hollis. From overwhelming obstacles to unpredictable encounters, their journey soon turns into an organic quest. With silence as a horizon line. And punk as a philosophy, thinking that music is accessible to all and that the human spirit is above the technique.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-03-15
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Ian Dury & The Blockheads: Hold On To Your Structure - Live at the Hammersmith Odeon
Overview: Filmed on 24th June 1985 at London Hammersmith Odeon
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-03-26
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The Old Grey Whistle Test in Concert: Ian Dury and the Blockheads Live at the Dominion Theatre
Overview: Anne Nightingale presents a live concert special featuring Ian Dury and The Blockheads at the Dominion Theatre.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-24
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