John Farnham Given ‘All Clear’ Following Cancer Battle – Billboard

John Farnham is cancer-free and feeling like “the luckiest man alive.”

The legendary Australian singer shared the excellent news to mark the anniversary of a marathon operation to take away a cancerous development from his mouth.

“It’s been a 12 months since my first surgical procedure and to be sincere I’ve misplaced rely as to what number of different procedures there’s been since then. I’m certain somebody’s stored monitor of all of them — let’s simply say, there’s been a number of,” he writes in a press release.

“However, I’m residence now and I’m a really grateful and pleased man.”

The 74-year-old artist underwent eight weeks of radiation remedy after that preliminary surgical procedure, and was given the “all clear” from docs final month.

“It’s solely now that I can begin to recognize and comprehend, for myself, what number of messages of affection and help have been despatched to me over the previous 12 months,” he provides. “I don’t know what to say, apart from thanks so very a lot. It actually means the world to me.”

And the way did he mark the anniversary of his surgical procedure? By having fun with a pizza — “as a result of I can,” he remarked. “I can’t wait to see what is likely to be subsequent on the menu. Convey on 2024.”

Farnham is one among Australia’s most profitable — and most recognizable — recording artists, with hits throughout 5 many years.

The best of all of them is “You’re the Voice,” which led the Australian chart (then the Kent Music Report) and peaked at No. 6 on the Official U.Okay. Chart. “You’re The Voice” and Males At Work’s “Down Beneath” are regarded in these elements because the “unofficial” nationwide anthems.

The hit single appeared on 1986’s Whispering Jack, the primary report to promote over 1,000,000 copies in Australia. To today, Whispering Jack is acknowledged because the highest-selling Australian album in ARIA historical past, with greater than 1.6 million copies shifted.

Farnham has been saluted with a number of awards and honors, together with the 1987 Australian of the Yr, he was made Officer of the Order of Australia in 1996, he’s collected 21 ARIA Awards — essentially the most by a solo artist — and inducted into the ARIA Corridor of Fame in 2003.

When Farnham was admitted to hospital earlier this 12 months to fight a chest an infection, followers feared the worst. However the singer, as he has carried out all through his recording profession, made a powerful comeback.

In Could of this 12 months, he was the topic of a feature-length documentary, John Farnham: Discovering The Voice, launched by way of Sony Footage, with a companion soundtrack by way of Wheatley Information / Sony Music Australia. The doc went on to grow to be Australia’s highest-grossing feature-length music documentary of all time, and the LP debuted at No. 2 on the ARIA Chart, for his twentieth prime 10 look.