Reports have surfaced that Joe Perry collapsed after a performance last night (November 10) in New York City and was rushed to the hospital.
First reported by TMZ, Perry was making a guest appearance during Billy Joel’s Madison Square Garden residency show, where he performed “Walk This Way” with Joel. After exiting the stage, Perry reportedly went back to his dressing room where he collapsed. Paramedics were treating Perry on the scene for a period of time before he was taken to the hospital.
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UPDATE: — Sources tell TMZ, he’s been having “breathing issues for the last few weeks and it came to a head last night.” We’re told it involves congestion in the lungs. Joe is curretnly in the hospital, awake and doing well.
Erica Banas is a rock/classic rock blogger that loves the smell of old vinyl in the morning.