{"id":587659,"date":"2026-09-02T06:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587659\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T06:20:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:20:28","slug":"lionel-richie-treated-for-suspected-dehydration-after-st-louis-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587659\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie treated for suspected dehydration after St Louis concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the opening night of his co-headlining tour with Earth, Wind & Fire in Minnesota in June, the singer became unwell and ended his performance after spending about an hour on stage.<\/p>\n

\"LionelLionel Richie has reportedly been admitted to intensive care after appearing to struggle during a recent concert performance. Photo \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

While performing his hit Dancing on the Ceiling<\/a>, the 77-year-old singer was forced to pause and sit down on stage.<\/p>\n

He managed to complete Three Times a Lady before announcing an intermission, but did not return. <\/p>\n

Richie addressed the crowd about his condition before leaving the stage, joking; \u201cNow, what I have learned is when you are feeling dizzy, sit your ass down. And when you are feeling strange about yourself, sit your ass down\u201d. <\/p>\n

He noted that it was the first time in his career he had performed Dancing on the Ceiling while seated, calling it a \u201cbad sign\u201d.<\/p>\n

The singer was taken to hospital as a precaution, and his saxophonist, Dino Soldo, eventually informed the audience the show would not continue.<\/p>\n

Richie made a successful return to the stage less than a week later in Pittsburgh. During that performance, he reassured fans, saying, \u201cI had you worried there for a minute, huh?\u201d.<\/p>\n

He admitted he had ignored advice from friends to continue resting, instead choosing to perform a full set of his greatest hits to prove he was \u201cfighting fit\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"During the opening night of his co-headlining tour with Earth, Wind & Fire in Minnesota in June, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3225,5811,74,15442,1558,536,25759,10311,2837,156,2082,36175,168033,22050,111,139,69,6777,8244,17182,13556,11420,7235,8841,10273,23505],"class_list":["post-587659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-according","tag-admitted","tag-after","tag-appearing","tag-been","tag-care","tag-concert","tag-dehydration","tag-during","tag-entertainment","tag-for","tag-intensive","tag-lionel","tag-louis","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-performance","tag-recent","tag-reportedly","tag-richie","tag-st","tag-struggle","tag-suspected","tag-tmz","tag-treated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}