Wilko – Love and Death and Rock ‘n’ Roll at Southwark Playhouse review: 'remarkably dull and utterly leaden'

The remarkable story of a singular English talent is very poorly told here. Wilko Johnson was the machine-gun guitarist for 70s Essex pub rockers Dr. Feelgood. He helped invent punk and influenced generations of musicians.

He also devoured drugs and ecstatic literature in vast quantities, shagged around on the teenage sweetheart he married and adored, then cheated a terminal cancer diagnosis. Oh, and he made his acting debut aged 64 as a sinister executioner in Game of Thrones in 2011, which he described as “easy”.