World Party frontman Karl Wallinger is still suffering sight problems following his 2001 brain aneurysm which kept him away from the music scene for five years.
The Ship of Fools hitmaker, a one-time member of cult folk rockers The Waterboys, suffered the major health setback while on vacation with his family after an artery ruptured and caused a clot.
He battled back from his most desperate days and returned to making music in 2006 - but he admits he's not fully recovered six years later.
He tells Mojo magazine, "During my rehabilitation I had to re-learn things because my eyesight is f**ked. For a while I couldn't see the end of the guitar... and now I can't see my right hand on the piano unless I look very strangely to the right."
And Wallinger has a theory about what brought on the medical crisis - and it has nothing to do with the fact he was a chain-smoker.
He explains, "I think it had more to do with me playing oboe in my youth. There's a lot of crazy blowing and pressure build-up with woodwind. Leon Goossens, the famous English oboist, had a brain haemorrhage (and) Quincy Jones played trumpet and he had two aneurysms.