Music legend John Farnham makes massive announcement more than 12 months on from his cancer scare

John Farnham is releasing his individual candid memoir titled The Voice Within, with the announcement coming far more than a year just after his medical procedures for mouth cancer.

Co-created with Poppy Stockwell, the 74-12 months-aged Australian music legend is established to convey to his quite own and public journey in his personal text and with his signature humour.

The reserve will document Farnham’s early lifestyle and stardom increasing up in Melbourne in the 1960s, to his comeback 1986 album Whispering Jack.

It will also notify the highs of his fame, as perfectly as the cheapest of lows – as his stellar vocation stalled, record companies turned their backs, and he confronted monetary wreck.

More lately, Farnham will replicate on his 2022 mouth most cancers diagnosis, which happened only months adhering to the demise of his friend and supervisor Glenn Wheatley.

The memoir, published by Hachette Australia, will be unveiled in all formats in November 2024. 

‘Having been asked quite a few situations, it ultimately felt like the appropriate time to sit down and inform my tale,’ Farnham mentioned.

‘It is a pretty bizarre experience wanting back on my life, on the good and the undesirable, and now that I have began, it is all dashing again.

‘I hope the book engages and entertains, since that is what so a lot of my lifetime has been about.’

In the meantime, Stockwell added: ‘Working with John on his memoir has been like sitting down down with an old pal, who also occurs to be an absolute legend, to share tales that are each deeply particular and wildly entertaining.

‘His resilience and sense of humour glow by means of every single recollection, building this venture a legitimate reflection of the guy powering the new music. It really is been a pleasure to support deliver his tales to existence, and I cannot hold out for readers to get an unfettered glimpse of the gentleman whose music is the soundtrack to so numerous of our life.’

Pursuing his analysis in 2022 and subsequent operation, Farnham stays most cancers no cost.

The You’re the Voice hitmaker introduced he was most cancers totally free in August the following yr.

In his 1st particular assertion due to the fact surgical procedures, the audio superstar said he was ultimately in the ease and comfort of his own property surrounded by his loving relatives and felt like ‘the luckiest man I know’.

‘It’s been a year because my 1st surgical procedures and to be genuine I have misplaced depend as to how quite a few other strategies you will find been since then,’ he claimed.

‘I’m positive someone’s held monitor of them all – let us just say, there’s been a couple of.’ 

‘But, I’m residence now and I am a incredibly grateful and satisfied person. I’m sitting right here in my living area lapping up the attention from my attractive spouse, Jill, my boys Rob and James and my mini Schnauzer, Edmund.

Farnham went on to thank his fans for the perfectly-wishes and guidance and explained he was on the lookout ahead to his very first celebratory food – a pizza.

Farnham’s family experienced previously provided updates on behalf of the Australian songs legend.

The That’s Freedom singer was hospitalised in 2023 immediately after he produced a chest infection pursuing operation to take out a cancerous tumour in his mouth.