{"id":760082,"date":"2026-06-25T11:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760082\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T11:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T11:25:14","slug":"lionel-richie-cuts-concert-short-after-falling-ill-onstage-video-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/760082\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie Cuts Concert Short After Falling Ill Onstage, Video Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Lionel Richie<br \/>\n                          Suffers Dizzy Spell Before Cutting Show Short<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              June 25, 2026<br \/>\n                            1:16 AM PDT\n                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260419_89b2804a2a5346f7b3e0b5bae2a4089d\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:06ad6e24-049b-458e-9f1a-7216ce92ed40\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/89b2804a2a5346f7b3e0b5bae2a4089d_md.jpg\" alt=\"Lionel Richie\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lionel Richie had a rough night onstage, cutting short his Minnesota concert after falling ill onstage in front of a packed crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The legendary singer was performing &#8220;Dancing on the Ceiling&#8221; at Grand Casino Arena in St. Paul on Wednesday night, when he started feeling dizzy\u00a0and was forced to sit down.<\/p>\n<p>Waiting for your permission to load the Twitter Tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Videos posted on social media show Richie belting out the song as he walks around the stage before parking his butt on a platform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>After finishing the tune, Richie sat down at a piano to perform \u201cThree Times a Lady\u201d but suddenly took an intermission.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, saxophonist Dino Soldo came out onstage to inform the audience that Lionel wasn&#8217;t feeling well and would be unable to continue the show.<\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20250822_5a5a47fb07e04dcf92e0a4b57138b629\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:06ad6e24-049b-458e-9f1a-7216ce92ed40\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5a5a47fb07e04dcf92e0a4b57138b629_md.jpg\" alt=\"0822-Lionel-Richie-Through-The-Years-PRIMARY\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out last night&#8217;s performance was the kickoff for Lionel&#8217;s latest tour with Earth, Wind &amp; Fire. Twenty-six concerts are scheduled through mid-August with stops in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>We reached to Lionel&#8217;s rep for comment &#8230; so far no word back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie Suffers Dizzy Spell Before Cutting Show Short Published June 25, 2026 1:16 AM PDT Lionel Richie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-760082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}