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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Entertainment
Welbert Bauyaban

The Acute Respiratory Threat: Rod Stewart's Lungs are Giving Out After Weeks of Medical Warning Signs

A veteran performer keeps pushing onstage, even as the body starts issuing louder warnings. (Credit: Joe Bielawa from MInneapolis, USA, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Rod Stewart paused mid-song at the Utah First Credit Union Amphitheater in West Valley City on Friday night after appearing to struggle for breath and reaching for oxygen backstage, in an onstage health scare that forced the 81-year-old singer to finish the show seated.

Photos and video shared by TMZ showed the veteran rocker slow down mid-performance before attendants came to his aid, and Stewart later told the crowd he had 'dang near fainted.'

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