Leppard star gave me will to live!
When young musician Neil Smith's cancer went into remission Def Leppard drummer Rick Allen was one of the first people on the phone to congratulate him.
The pair struck up a friendship when the millionaire musician dropped in on patients at Sheffield's Weston Park Hospital last summer.
Neil, aged 22, had been diagnosed with an aggressive tumour behind his nose and was due to undergo his first session of chemotherapy the day Rick and girlfriend Lauren brought a drum workshop into the new young people's cancer unit.