Medical professionals would go on to perform two surgeries to take his lymph nodes out, which left the star without use of his arms.
Watts said back in 2005, after having beaten cancer the previous year: “When they [take out the lymph nodes], the muscles go.
“Then you sit around for eight weeks in treatment. You can’t lift your arm. It’s like being paralysed. It was a worry, because of what I do for a living.
“We’ve got a tour, and I didn’t know if I could get through a song. You can’t stop once you get going, if you’re a drummer… I didn’t know if I could make it… but it’s amazing how quickly your body heals.”