Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Coughing your way to fame

While trying to work on assessments recently I inexplicably had this song in my head. I hadn't heard it for a million years, but it just kept coming to mind anyway so I eventually gave in and listened to it. How's that for fossilizing a problem?

As an extension of my procrastination I looked up James Morrison's bio on the ever-reputable Wikipedia. Apparently his distinctively gravelly voice is not just down to his smoking habit - he suffered a really bad case of whooping cough as a baby. He was only given a 30% chance of survival and even then was expected to be pretty severely brain damaged.

Instead he just has a really great voice. High five for silver linings.