http://twitter.com/DinoSoldoLC has stomach flu. Dehydrated!!!! He has never cancelled a show , so we went on. Collapsed. He's at hospt & is fine! No need 4 concern yet
Praying and hoping for the best...Being released already. No Problems, peoples.
Sounds like he didn't want to disappoint his fans when maybe he should have postponed if he wasn't feeling 100% beforehand.brightnow wrote:This is directly from Dino Soldo's twitter stream:
http://twitter.com/DinoSoldoLC has stomach flu. Dehydrated!!!! He has never cancelled a show , so we went on. Collapsed. He's at hospt & is fine! No need 4 concern yet
From Stuff.co
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/mu ... s-on-stage
Leonard Cohen collapses on stage
Stuff.co.nz Last updated 12:21 19/09/2009
Reuters
FORCED OFF STAGE:
Veteran singer Leonard Cohen collapsed on stage in Valencia. The 74-year-old returned to music last year after his former manager swindled his retirement fund.
Band member Javier Mas told Spanish newspaper El Mundo the 74-year-old suffered a "severe attack of indigestion" and vomiting but that his situation was not serious.
Cohen was performing Bird on the Wire about half an hour into the concert in Valencia when he lost his balance as he went to pick up a guitar.
The gig was the penultimate stop on his nine-concert tour of Spain, which is due to end in Barcelona on Monday.
Cohen was forced back on the road for the first time in 15 years last year after his business manager lost his retirement savings.
After his previous tour in the early 1990s, he retreated to a mountain near Los Angeles to become a Buddhist monk.
He resurfaced in 2005, claiming that his former manager and lover Kelley Lynch misappropriated more than $US5 million, reducing his retirement account to $150,000. A Los Angeles court awarded him a $US9 million civil judgment, but he has reportedly not been able to collect from Lynch.
Cohen rose to fame in the late 1960s with his poems, songs and novels steeped in detached romance. His half-sung ballads such as Suzanne, Hallelujah and Bird on a Wire have been widely covered by other artists.
He toured New Zealand in January of this year, playing shows in Wellington and Auckland.
From AFP
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Leonard Cohen collapses on stage in Spain: reports
(AFP) – 1 hour ago
MADRID — Singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen was forced to cut short a concert in Spain late Friday after he became ill and collapsed on stage, Spanish media said.
A member of his band, Javier Mas, said Cohen suffered a "severe attack of indigestion" and vomiting but that his situation was not serious, the newspaper El Mundo reported on its website.
It said Cohen, who turns 75 on Monday, was performing "Bird on the Wire" about half an hour into the show in the eastern city of Valencia when he lost his balance as he went to pick up a guitar.
He was saved from falling by backup singers, but moments later he collapsed again and was helped off stage to receive treatment from a medical team.
Mas came out almost an hour later to tell the thousands of people gathered in the Luis Puig Velodrome that Cohen would not be returning to the stage that night, but that he hoped to reschedule the show for another time, El Mundo said.
Valencia was the penultimate stop on his nine-concert tour of Spain, which is due to end in Barcelona on Monday.
The Canadian poet, novelist and singer-songwriter emerged in the 1960s with his first album "Songs Of Leonard Cohen", which included one of his best-known songs, "Suzanne".
He quit the music scene in the early 1990s, living at a Buddhist monastery in California, where he was ordained a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and took the name Jikhan, meaning "silence".
But he was forced to return after being swindled out of his retirement nest egg by his former manager.
