wrote<\/a>. \u201cI now have to rest, in order to make a complete recovery and ensure that I\u2019m as fit as can be before getting back to work, thanks everybody for your patience and understanding. I really do appreciate it and apologize for all the inconvenience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\tThe group postponed a pair of Germany shows last weekend \u2014 and subsequently nixed the remainder of their tour \u2014 after announcing that Gillan was hospitalized with an unspecified health issue.<\/p>\n
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\n\tA few days later, Gillan updated fans, saying he \u201chad a medical problem whilst in Leipzig which required urgent attention at the hospital.\u201d However, \u201cI was hoping that I would get the all clear to hang on until the end of the tour, but there are very serious risks involved in me doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tDeep Purple\u2019s postponed European tour was scheduled to run through November 25. As of now, the band\u2019s Latin America tour \u2014 scheduled to begin December 5 in Sao Paulo, Brazil and conclude December 19 in Mexico City \u2014 is still on the schedule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“I now have to rest, in order to make a complete recovery and ensure that I\u2019m as fit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,225986,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-677980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-deep-purple","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}