my my guest today wilko johnson fits that bill. raw guitar sound in the band dr feelgood paved the way for punk. he's kept on rocking through cancer, depression and changing musical tastes. so what keeps him going? wilkojohnson, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. i want to start in 2013. when you were diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. i believe the doctors said you had less than a year to live and yet, here you sit with me. how weird is that? it's very weird. in fact, it's stranger now for me to try and look back and imagine, imagine that year i spent expecting... death? death, yes. i think of waking up every morning with that, and i can't... you know, i can't... i mean, i'm back in the world now, so... and yet, one of the striking and for many people, strange things about the way you responded was that you refused chemo. you said you didn't want any of that. and you carried on making music, playing the gigs around the world? yeah, well they gave me the diagnosis. told me that my pancreatic cancer, that it was terminal, and i