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Lawson singer: Liver failure 'a matter of life or death'

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Lead singer of band Lawson, Andy Brown, says his liver failure “was a matter of life or death”. Brown, who named the band after a surgeon who previously performed life-saving surgery on a separate brain tumour, said the liver failure came while recording the band’s second album. “I was getting iller and iller and iller,” he said. “My skin turned yellow, I lost a lot of weight.” “They put me on these steroids. It just started to regenerate and regenerate and after a few weeks I started to feel myself again. I feel so lucky really,” he added. This clip is originally from Afternoon Edition on Wednesday June 3 2015.

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