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 A Marlboro man no more Support for Status Quo at the BIC
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 Near
death experiences are very often an occupational hazard in the dangerous
world of rock ’n roll.But 30 year old musician Andy Magowan, sax player with local live scene veterans, Beyond Belief, reckons his recently shocking near rendezvous with the Grim Reaper is quite enough to be going on with for the  moment.Andy collapsed with a suspected heart attack while unloading the band’s van at 2am in the rain, after a particularly rollicking gig. Now, it seems, Andy is doing what most sax players would consider utterly unthinkable - he’s giving up his 20 Marlboro a day habit. Andy, an on-the-road travel rep, has often strived to appear laid back, but this wasn’t what  he had in mind when he found himself on his back on a stretcher
in an ambulance on the way to Bournemouth Hospital.“It was a very humbling experience because you never think it could happen to you,” mused Andy. “Stress,” he continued, “it’s the disease of the 90’s”. Having been pumped full of morphine, had ECT treatment and chest X-rays, Andy was found to have fallen foul of an extremely virulent chest infection which inflamed his windpipe making breathing almost impossible. Denying that he had been  blowing his sax too hard, Andy brushed aside reports that his life
would now consist entirely of muesli, rabbit food and cross-country runs. |
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