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| The American rocker and actor Meat Loaf has collapsed on stage during a concert in Canada. | The American rocker and actor Meat Loaf has collapsed on stage during a concert in Canada. |
| Video footage from a concert in Edmonton, Alberta, on Thursday evening shows the musician, born Marvin Lee Aday, falling to the stage floor during a performance. | |
| He appears to lose consciousness and is attended to by bandmates. | He appears to lose consciousness and is attended to by bandmates. |
| Edmonton police confirmed to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that its officers were called to respond to a medical emergency at the venue. | Edmonton police confirmed to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that its officers were called to respond to a medical emergency at the venue. |
| Local reports said the Northern Jubilee Auditorium was cleared shortly after Meat Loaf collapsed at about 9.37pm and ambulances and fire trucks were seen outside the venue. | |
| One concertgoer, Lindsay Sundmark, told the Edmonton Journal “he was performing ‘I Would Do Anything For Love’ and all of a sudden, in the middle of it, he collapsed right on stage”. | |
| “We weren’t sure at first whether it was part of the act or it was something for real,” Sundmark said. | |
| “It looked at first like he was just being theatrical and lying down on the stage,” said Britt Brewer, also in attendance. | |
| Meat Loaf had cancelled shows in Moose Jaw and Calgary earlier in the week due to illness. | |
| The 68-year-old is one of the bestselling recording artists of all time, renowned for hits including Bat Out of Hell and the Grammy-award winning I’d Do Anything for Love. | |
| Meat Loaf collapses on stage during concert in Canada https://t.co/wtU6WLHd8Z pic.twitter.com/5cQWCOu2Zn | |
| He also played Eddie in the cult hit film The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Robert “Bob” Paulson in Fight Club, among a range of other roles in a career spanning four decades. | He also played Eddie in the cult hit film The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Robert “Bob” Paulson in Fight Club, among a range of other roles in a career spanning four decades. |
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