Guitarist And ‘Recreation Of Thrones’ Actor Was 75 – Deadline

Wilko Johnson, the pub-rock guitarist who performed executioner Ser Ilyn Payne in Recreation of Thrones, has died aged 75.

The musician, identified for his energetic on-stage persona and affect on the punk rock motion, handed away at dwelling on Monday (November 21), in response to a message on his social media accounts posted at present.

“That is the announcement we by no means needed to make, and we achieve this with a really heavy coronary heart: Wilko Johnson has died,” the assertion learn, including: “Thanks for respecting the household’s privateness at this very unhappy time. RIP Wilko Johnson.”

Johnson is greatest identified for his lengthy and storied music profession however appeared in seasons one and two of HBO’s Recreation of Thrones, by which he performed a mute knight who serves the king.

The proficient musician was recognized with late-age pancreatic most cancers in 2013 and was informed he had lower than a 12 months to stay. He determined towards chemotherapy however a 12 months later was declared cancer-free after a significant operation to take away an enormous tumor.

He’s greatest often called the guitarist for British band Dr Feelgood, whose R&B-influenced pub-rock fashion relied closely on Johnson’s uneven guitar stylings, who. They’d a primary UK album in 1976, ‘Stupidity,’ however Johnson left the band a 12 months later. He would go on to affix Ian Drury and the Blockheads and launch his personal materials, together with a 2014 album with The Who’s Roger Daltrey.