Harsher in Hindsight: Paul's playful warning to the audience in Dead and Alive - 'Multiple sclerosis, MS as they call it. Um, you can be a great ballerina, or a classical cellist at the top of your career then suddenly, one day out of the blue without fucking warning, whack! Your whole life's fucked,' - doesn't seem quite as funny now when it was revealed in 2010 the main reason for the group's split was Tim Ferguson's diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. Ouch.