John Farnham, the vocalist on the Little River Band’s most up-to-date Top 40 hits, could by no means sing once more.

He was identified with mouth most cancers in late 2022 then underwent a surgical process the place his jawbone was scraped in spite of everything of his backside tooth had been eliminated. Thankfully, radiation remedy did not injury his vocal cords, however there’s nonetheless an issue.

“My facial disfigurement from the surgery means I can’t open my mouth wide enough for a strip of spaghetti, let alone to sing a top C,” Farnham writes in a brand new memoir, The Voice Inside. “At this stage, I can’t get the movement to make the sounds I want to make, and that’s where the vibrations and my voice come from. It’s still a very disconcerting thing – and trying hurts.”

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Farnham first appeared on a pair of bonus tracks for 1982’s Greatest Hits changed the departing Glenn Shorrock within the Little River Band. “The Other Guy” went to No. 11 within the U.S. “We Two” reached No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 earlier than “You’re Driving Me Out of My Mind,” additionally from 1983’s The Net, hit No. 35.

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Farnham, a former youngster star in his adopted house of Australia, appeared on 1985’s Playing to Win and 1986’s No Reins earlier than returning to solo work.

The Voice Inside was written with Poppy Stockell, the filmmaker behind John Farnham: Finding the Voice and divulges some lingering sick will from his time within the Little River Band. Farnham describes an period by which he needed to overcome “undercurrents of animosity, jealousy and petty peeves.”

Unfortunately, Farnham’s current well being issues have not been restricted to the most cancers analysis. While recovering from surgical procedure, he additionally fell and broke his again. But Farnham says he hasn’t but given up on his dream to sing once more: “I can barely open my mouth but I still wail in the shower.”