Feelgood's first 5 single releases, including " Roxette" and " Back in the Night", the only single to chart during his membership of the band was " Sneakin' Suspicion". The live album, Stupidity, reached number one in the UK Albums Chart, but although Johnson played on Dr. Feelgood during their initial years, including the band's first four albums, Down by the Jetty, Malpractice, Stupidity and Sneakin' Suspicion, all released between 19. His Bo Diddley-influenced style formed the essential driving force behind Dr. It evolved from a failed attempt to copy Mick Green of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates, a guitarist whom Johnson greatly admired. This enabled him to play rhythm guitar and riffs or solos at the same time creating a highly percussive guitar sound. He achieved his playing style by not using a pick but instead relying on fingerstyle. Johnson developed his own image, coupling jerky movements on stage (his so-called "duck walk") with a choppy guitar style, occasionally raising his guitar to his shoulder like a gun, and a novel dress sense (he favoured a black suit and a pudding bowl haircut).
Originally of sunburst-coloured body with white pickguard, Johnson later refinished it in black and added a red pickguard. He still plays a vintage 1962 Fender Telecaster with rosewood fingerboard which he bought in 1974, shortly after Dr. In 1965 Johnson bought his first Fender Telecaster from a shop in Southend, Essex for £90 (equivalent to £1,854 as of 2021). After returning from Goa, Johnson worked in 1972, for less than a year, as an English teacher. Feelgood – a mainstay of the 1970s pub rock movement. Īfter graduating, he travelled overland to India, before returning to Essex to play with the Pigboy Charlie Band. His undergraduate course included Anglo-Saxon and ancient Icelandic sagas.
Born in Canvey Island, Essex, Johnson went to Westcliff High School for Boys and played in several local groups, before attending the University of Newcastle upon Tyne to study for a BA in English Language and Literature.
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