Oh all right, I'll ask him, but he'll think I'm a lunatic! I've been on steroids for… let's see… actually, was using inhalers for maybe 50 years, but the steroids only appeared in the 1970s or so. Since then, and increasingly strong Becotide, and now Duovent.
The sexy huskiness pledge isn't my current doc, it was the one who put me on Becotide all those years ago, God rest him, when I asked whether there were any side effects.
But the not being able to sing any more started maybe 10 years ago and has gradually got worse. It might partly be because I don't sing at all - used to sing around the house and so on.