We have just learned that Grammy Award winning musician Meat Loaf has been rushed to the hospital after collapsing on stage during a concert in Canada.
Meat Loaf is 68-years-old and was performing his hit “I’d Do Anything for Love” when he appeared to get ill and collapsed.
From NBC News:
A spokesperson for Alberta Health Services confirmed that a patient was transported from the concert venue to an Edmonton hospital, but would not identify the patient or the patient’s condition.
NBC News was not immediately able to reach representatives of Meat Loaf, who was born Marvin Lee Aday.
The incident came after Meat Loaf canceled a concert in Calgary on Monday due to illness. He is on a Canadian tour that wraps up in July, according to his website.
“For the whole show Meat Loaf seemed a little out of it,” said Callie Young, 29, who was in the 8th row at the concert. “I actually told my boyfriend I was having a hard time enjoying the concert because I was concerned for his health.”
She told NBC News that about an hour into the show the singer took a short break, sang “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” and started singing “I Would Do Anything for Love.”
“Before the first chorus he just dropped,” Young said. “We thought it was part of the show but it got very serious very quickly.”
Young said venue security and his stage crew crowded around Meat Loaf and then security made everyone leave in “a calm, orderly fashion which most people did.”
In 2013, Meat Loaf told the news agency Reuters that he did not want to travel anymore, during what he then called his final tour. He collapsed on stage in 2011, and later blamed past concussions and complications from asthma, Reuters reported.
Meat Loaf has seven more concerts in Canada through July 2, according to a show list posted on his website. The next concert is scheduled for Saturday in Cold Lake in northern Alberta.
This is a breaking news story so we will bring you any new details as they come in.
The man has been making good music for years however he should not be on the road.
Ever since the seventies he has been touring with a medic and has had oxygen with him on stage. His show rider even requests that an ambulance be sitting outside the venue ready at a moments notice.
This in not the first time he has collapsed on stage but yet he refuses to stop touring
This is worriesome news. Meatloaf is such an active performer and he lost over 100 pounds which helped his asthma but he is 68 years old and should stop touring for his healths sake. I love his music and he has contributed many fantastic songs in the Pop field. He will be in my thoughts and prayers. Get well soon please. Music needs your genius.