{"id":587919,"date":"2026-09-02T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587919\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T12:20:10","slug":"lionel-richie-remains-in-icu-after-struggling-on-stage-in-st-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/587919\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie remains in ICU after struggling on stage in St Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">The next show on his Sing a Song All Night Long Tour is set for September 26 in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">In July, Richie returned to the stage after a health scare that brought the opening week of his tour to an unexpected halt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, he had been performing Dancing on the Ceiling during the opening night of the tour in St Paul, Minnesota, when he began to feel dizzy and took a seat on stage before leaving the performance early.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Richie resumed his tour in Pittsburgh after postponing performances in Chicago, Illinois, and Columbus, Ohio, as doctors advised him to rest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Updating fans after returning to the stage in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Detroit, Michigan, the Hello artist posted on Instagram: \u201cThank you for every message, every kind word, and for all your love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m doing well, and I\u2019m grateful for all of you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPittsburgh and Detroit were an absolute joy. The energy, the dancing, the faces in the crowd\u2026 we made real memories together. See you in Toronto\u2026 let\u2019s party all night long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">Before returning to the stage, promoters announced Richie had postponed two performances after receiving medical advice to rest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">In a statement shared by Live Nation Chicago and the United Centre on Instagram, organisers said: \u201cUnder advisement by doctors to rest and return to full health, Lionel Richie has postponed his show on Friday, June 26, in Chicago, IL, and Saturday, June 27, in Columbus, OH.<\/p>\n<p class=\"PLRONTue\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cHe and Earth, Wind and Fire will return to the stage on Tuesday, June 30, in Pittsburgh, PA. Lionel is heartbroken to postpone these two shows and cannot wait to be back to performing for his fans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next show on his Sing a Song All Night Long Tour is set for September 26 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":587920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,156,65186,78,168033,22050,111,139,69,90,5428,1523,10715,17182,13556,11420,5433,7235,666,4767],"class_list":["post-587919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-after","tag-entertainment","tag-icu","tag-in","tag-lionel","tag-louis","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-onstage","tag-over","tag-remains","tag-reportedly","tag-richie","tag-st","tag-stage","tag-struggle","tag-struggling","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587919","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=587919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}