Wilko Johnson, Dr. Feelgood guitarist and 'Game of Thrones' actor, dead at 75 - Fox News

Wilko Johnson, the guitarist from the British blues-rock set Dr. Feelgood, has died. He was 75.

A connection posted Wednesday connected Johnson’s authoritative social media accounts connected behalf of his household said the instrumentalist died Monday evening astatine his location successful southeast England.

"This is the announcement we ne'er wanted to make, and we bash so, connected behalf of Wilko's household and the band, with a precise dense heart: Wilko Johnson has died," the Facebook station began. 

"He passed distant peacefully successful his slumber astatine his location successful Westcliff On Sea connected Monday evening, 21st November 2022. He was 75.

Wilko Johnson, guitarist of Dr. Feelgood, has died. He was 75. (AP Photo)

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"Thank you for respecting Wilko's family's privateness astatine this precise bittersweet time, and convey you each for having been specified a tremendous enactment passim Wilko's unthinkable life. RIP Wilko Johnson," the connection concluded.

Born John Wilkinson successful 1947, Johnson was raised connected Canvey Island. He studied Anglo-Saxon lit astatine Newcastle University and worked arsenic a schoolteacher earlier forming Dr. Feelgood with different section friends.

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Along with being the pb guitarist of the blues-rock band, Johnson besides portrayed Ser Ilyn Payne connected "Game of Thrones."

In 2012, Johnson was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and was told it was terminal. The imaginable of decease unexpectedly revived his originative energies. He declined chemotherapy, decided to spell connected 1 past circuit and recorded a "final" album, "Going Back Home," with Roger Daltrey of The Who.

Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with pancreatic crab successful 2012. In 2014, Johnson announced helium was cancer-free pursuing a country to region a 3-kilogram (6.6-pound) tumor. (Jo Hale/Redferns)

"I abruptly recovered myself successful a presumption wherever thing matters anymore," Johnson told The Associated Press successful 2013. 

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"I’m a miserable so-and-so normally. ... I’d beryllium worrying astir the taxman oregon each the things that we interest astir that get successful the mode of the existent things. And abruptly it doesn’t matter. All of that doesn’t matter.

"You locomotion down the thoroughfare and you consciousness intensely alive. You’re ‘Oh, look astatine that leaf!′ You’re looking astir and you think, ’I’m alive. Ain’t it amazing?’"

In 2014, Johnson announced helium was cancer-free pursuing a country to region a 3-kilogram (6.6-pound) tumor. He released different album, "Blow Your Mind," successful 2018, and played gigs with his Wilko Johnson Band until past month.

Johnson is survived by his sons Simon and Matthew and grandson Dylan.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.