Wilko Johnson The man who put Canvey Island on the cultural map made some of the most influential music this country has produced in the last 30 years when, in the early Seventies, his band Dr Feelgood ripped the UK music scene apart in a torrent of stripped-bare, primal R'n'B.
At a time when most bands wore stack-heeled boots, crushed-velvet loon pants and huge hair, the Feelgoods were adopted by a new generation fast growing bored with their elder brothers' progressive rock. Their uncompromising style - combined with Wilko's innovative songwriting, performing skills and unique image - were an enormous (and often since, criminally-underrated) influence on the genesis of the Punk Rock movement.
