Joe Perry collapsed backstage after making a guest appearance at Billy Joel’s Madison Square Garden concert Saturday night. According to a statement from his publicist, the Aerosmith guitarist is currently “alert and responsive”. The hospital he is being kept at has been unspecified.
“Following a guest performance during Billy Joel’s show last night at Madison Square Garden,” the statement reads, “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. This morning Perry remains in the hospital where he is alert and responsive. The Aerosmith guitarist will be unable to appear today at Rock And Roll Fantasy Camp in Florida and apologizes to those attending. Perry is expected to return to the road later this month.”
According to TMZ, the Aerosmith guitarist had just finished performing “Walk This Way” with Joel before collapsing in his dressing room. The show continued, with Joel reportedly unaware of the backstage emergency.
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