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‘I hope you enjoy the show. I hope I’m not dead’: how Feelgood star Wilko never saw the play about his life
The musician lived a wild story of many acts: Jonathan Maitland turned it into a play and read it to him just a year before he died. This is how their encounter went …
They had a No 1 album, a mesmerically dangerous live act and fans including Jimmy Page, Paul Weller, John Lydon and, it’s said, a young Lady Diana Spencer. Wilko and frontman Lee Brilleaux were the band’s focal point, a compelling black-and-white Essex version of Jagger and Richards or Daltrey and Townshend. His friend Charlie Chan, a cancer doctor and part-time photographer, took pictures that night and after studying them, decided Wilko looked suspiciously healthy for a man about to die.
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