Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry was recovering Sunday after collapsing backstage following a performance with Billy Joel at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, Entertainment Weekly reported.
The 68-year-old rocker surprised the crowd when he joined Joel for a cover of “Walk This Way” during the Saturday night show, but needed needed medical assistance in his dressing room, EW reported.
“Following a guest performance during Billy Joel’s show last night at Madison Square Garden, Joe Perry experienced shortness of breath and was treated backstage by paramedics who gave the guitarist oxygen and used a tracheal tube to clear his airway before taking him to a hospital,” representatives for Perry said in a statement to EW. “This morning Perry remains in the hospital where he is alert and responsive.”
The incident has forced him to cancel a planned appearance in Florida at Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp on Sunday, EW reported.
Perry recently released his new single “Quake” and announced he is embarking on a solo tour alongside Aerosmith member Brad Whitford and Gary Cherone of Extreme. The musician is also slated to join his bandmates when they begin their Las Vegas residency in April 2019.
On Sunday, radio host Eddie Trunk sent his well wishes to Perry in a tweet, saying he’d learned the rocker is “doing well.”
Perry previously suffered a medical emergency while onstage at a New York Hollywood Vampires show in 2016, suffering from dehydration and exhaustion, EW reported.
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