{{#replies}} Is Andy Stewart still married to Robyn Fairclough? One day I played golf, but every time I bent down to pick up the ball I got this terrible pain under my ribs. Over the previous two years he had suffered another two major "heart scares" and had undergone a further artery-widening operation. Please Please Due to the sheer scale of this comment community, we are not able to give each post Stewart could 'jouk' about, just as Lauder had with his tartan plaid and crooked walking-stick years before, and he landed on this theme at a time when it was becoming old-hat and despised by the postwar generation.
Start your Independent Premium subscription today. A family man, short of build (he was 5ft 7in), and a grandfather, he lived variously at Glasgow, Banchory, near Aberdeen, and at Arbroath, the fishing town in Angus on Scotland's east coast, where he died only hours after giving his last performance.Enter your email to follow new comments on this article.Are you sure you want to mark this comment as inappropriate?Want to discuss real-world problems, be involved in the most engaging discussions and hear from the journalists? Right now I'm coping with a hiatus hernia. I remember we got to "He loved the stage. Top Answer. Those closest to him were doubtful. I mean where do you go from there? Mind you, this is one of the reasons why I'm going to stop this kind of life travelling round the world with a handicap of not just the best heath, because there's no doubt about it the adrenalin may be going and you may give a performance and the audience may not realise that you're not all that well (although I have given performances when the audiences have realised that I haven't been too well) but the whole thing adds up to a big strain. He needed 16 pills a day to keep him functioning and had an on-going problem with angina that saw him regularly in and out of hospital. {{#sender.isSelf}} try again, the name must be unique In 1981 Andy was taken ill at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness an hour before he was due to go on stage with Andy Stewart's Show of The North. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when 33 34 35. '), linked them to a pipe tune, and sold 3 million records to stay for over a year in the Top 50 in the United States.Alas, bouts of ill-health and not just the passing trends in show business were the enemy. The existing Open Comments threads will continue to exist for those who do not subscribe to Please So I have cancelled everything planned. As he recovered at home from further heart surgery in a statement he revealed:The root of Andy's health problems was high cholesterol levels, levels which continuing to stay raised, proved difficult to treat, possibly down to something in his chromosomes, the doctors told him.At the end of the Eighties, Andy was probably at his lowest point ever health-wise. I had the LP from its original UK label (Highway) and when the CD came out, I was shocked at how poor the transfer was. The doctor said "That's it. )Recordings were Stewart's great stand-by. {{#replies}} . ""In 1973 I was on holiday in Banchory and had been feeling a bit stodgy in the tummy, but I didn't know what was wrong with me. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? It seemed that his life in the public eye was finally over - but the surprise reappearance of an old friend from the "I failed my Army medical because I had a duodenal ulcer at the age of twenty. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts
