Former Undertones frontman Feargal Sharkey has revealed he was recognized with prostate most cancers final yr.
The punk legend and outspoken environmental campaigner shared the information in an interview with the Each day Categorical, explaining that his well being scare is now “resolved” and urging males to get their common check-up for the illness.
“A couple of yr and a half in the past, I randomly went to see my GP with a sore throat,” Sharkey stated. “So my physician, being the attractive, awkward, cantankerous outdated man that he’s went, ‘Oh Feargal, by the way in which, you’re 65 now, I’m going to run the total battery of checks’.”
Confirming that he caught the optimistic outcomes of his analysis early, he added: “If it had not been seen to, it might have been a really completely different ending and a really completely different consequence to my life.”
He went on to ship an pressing message to different males: “The rationale I’m very completely satisfied to speak about it’s that if there’s one man on the market over the age of 45, go and see your GP. Go and get the blood check accomplished.”
“Now, for one in eight of you, you can be put in the identical journey I’ve had and it’s fairly astonishing to suppose that on this nation proper now, one in eight males have prostate most cancers,” he added. “Most of them don’t even understand it. So go and have the blood check and should you’re fortunate, you’ll stroll away.”
Sharkey was the frontman of Derry punk band The Undertones from 1975 till their cut up in 1983, singing on their signature tracks ‘Teenage Kicks’, ‘My Excellent Cousin’ and ‘Wednesday Week’. He went on to kind The Meeting with Vince Clarke of Depeche Mode and Erasure, scoring a 1983 hit with ‘By no means By no means’, and had a solo primary with ‘A Good Coronary heart’ two years later.
He went on be a number one music business govt, working for Polydor Data earlier than turning into Head of the Reside Music Discussion board and CEO of British Music Rights after which UK Music.
In recent times, Sharkey has grow to be a number one voice within the political motion for clear rivers and environmental safety, advocating for stronger regulation of the water business and serving as a vocal critic of establishments akin to Ofwat and the Surroundings Company.