The Remedy keyboardist Roger O’Donnell reveals lymphoma prognosis

Roger O’Donnell, the longtime keyboardist for the pioneering British rock band The Remedy, has revealed he was identified with lymphoma.

On Saturday, O’Donnell posted a prolonged thread on X for Blood Most cancers Consciousness month, through which he disclosed his prognosis. “In September final yr I used to be identified with a really uncommon and aggressive type of lymphoma. I had ignored the signs for a couple of months however lastly went,” he wrote, “and after surgical procedure the results of the biopsy was devastating.”

After present process what O’Donnell described as “the most recent sci fi immunotherapy and a few medication that had been first used 100 years in the past,” in addition to “radiotherapy, which additionally was one of many first therapies developed in opposition to most cancers,” O’Donnell reported, “I am advantageous and the prognosis is superb.”

The Remedy have already got a tragic historical past with most cancers. In 2019, Andy Anderson, who performed drums with the band for his or her albums The High, Live performance: The Remedy Reside, and Reside in Japan, died following a terminal prostate most cancers prognosis.

O’Donnell by no means performed alongside Anderson, having joined the band two years after Anderson’s exit, however he took to social media to advocate for frequent check-ups. “Most cancers CAN be crushed however in case you are identified early sufficient you stand a means higher probability, so all I’ve to say is go GET TESTED, when you have the faintest thought you might have signs go and get checked out,” he wrote.

He continued, “If you already know somebody who’s in poor health or struggling speak to them, each single phrase helps, imagine me I do know. I’d additionally wish to thank my Drs, rockstars everybody of them, all of the nurses and technicians, my mates, household and [partner] Mimi, typically its more durable to be on the opposite facet of this.”

The Remedy is fronted by the prodigious, notoriously elusive Robert Smith, the one one of many band’s founding members to have constantly performed by means of every iteration, from 1987 to right this moment. O’Donnell was recruited by Smith after touring with bands like Thompson Twins, Berlin, and The Psychedelic Furs within the early ’80s. He was a part of the band’s touring and recording lineup from 1987-1990, returned in 1995 for ten years, then joined once more in 2011 and has stayed ever since.

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Past The Remedy, O’Donnell launched an album of ambient, corvid-inspired instrumental compositions referred to as 2 Ravens in 2020. He additionally served as the manager producer on the movie England Is Mine, a biopic of Morrissey which additionally marked the primary function movie look of Killing Eve‘s Jodie Comer. EPing a movie about The Smiths frontman shocked many Remedy followers, given the decades-long feud between Morrissey and Robert Smith.

O’Donnell was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame alongside Smith and the band’s present and former members in 2023.