Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody Sings With Dislocated Jaw for Eight Years

 

• In what has to be one of the most bizarre ailments to have emerged from the crazy world of rock 'n' roll, Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has revealed that he's been singing with a dislocated jaw for the last eight years. His condition only recently came to light when it became too painful for him to sing while recording his forthcoming solo album, 'Tired Portland.'
  Having taken a drunken tumble down a flight of stairs at the Arts School nightclub in Glasgow, the dislocated jaw remained undetected thanks to his abusive behaviour to hospital staff who didn't bother to X-ray the hapless singer because they wanted to get rid of him as soon as possible.
  "I busted myself up pretty bad. My eye closed over like a beaten boxer and I lost some teeth, which I got replaced," he told the Daily Record.
  "Waking up in a hospital bed with only one eye and the worst hangover I ever had is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.
  "Because of my previous night's behaviour to the nursing staff, the only thing they wanted was rid of me so there were no head X-rays taken. Let me be clear right now, I am not annoyed with the nurses at all. I am only ashamed of myself, not annoyed with them."
  He continued, "A few years after that incident, my jaw started to get sore and has been a source of pain for years. I have seen all kinds of people about it. My mistrust of Western medicine meant, though, that never once did I get it X-rayed."