Cancer and brain lesion were my biggest battles... now I'm ready to rock 'n' roll again

Musician says he thought he would die from health struggles

- EMYLIE HOWIE

Paisley rock star Davey Pattison is making an amazing comeback on stage after a “nightmare” year that saw him beat prostate cancer then spend more than four months in hospital with a lesion on his brain.

And Davey admits that, when he was at his lowest ebb lying in a hospital bed unable to hold a conversation with anyone, he thought he was going to die.

But the singer has fought back to recover from his life-threatening health problems and is performing with his band at Ivory Blacks, in Glasgow, on Friday, June 13.

The lead vocalist was plucked from obscurity in the late 1970s after being invited to join legendary American guitarist Ronnie Montrose's newly-formed rock band, Gamma and spent the next 40 years living in California.

Davey also went on to become the lead singer with the Robin Trower Band, recording solo albums and doing countless studio sessions making TV adverts for the likes of the Mattel toy company, Coca Cola and Taco Bell.

After returning to Scotland several years ago to live in Paisley, he formed The Davey Pattison Band and gigged all over the country.

That was until early in 2024 when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.