{"id":657669,"date":"2026-06-25T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657669\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:59:14","slug":"lionel-richie-falls-ill-at-show-weeks-before-sandringham-gig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/657669\/","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie falls ill at show weeks before Sandringham gig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Lionel Richie, who is set to headline HeritageLive Festival at Sandringham Estate this summer, had to bring his first concert of his Sing A Song All Night Long tour to a halt mid-performance on Wednesday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The 77-year-old was an hour into performing at the\u00a0Grand Casino Arena in St Paul, Minnesota, as the start of his joint tour with Earth, Wind &amp; Fire when he stopped for an unexpected intermission.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Lionel Richie\"\/>Lionel Richie will perform at the Sandringham Estate this summer as part of HeritageLive (Image: Derek Bremner)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was reported that he explained he was feeling &#8220;dizzy&#8221; and asked the audience to wait for him to come back.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This came after he was seen sitting down on stage several times, including during some of his mega-hits.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Richie&#8217;s band then reportedly also left the stage minutes later but, more than 40 minutes after he cut off the show, a band member returned to announce he wouldn&#8217;t be able to return because he was feeling ill.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It comes just weeks before the star is due to take to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/25951440.lionel-richie-announced-2026-sandringham-estate-show\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stage at the Sandringham Estate<\/a> on August 20 as part of HeritageLive Festivals\u2019 annual summer gigs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He joins a stellar line-up of headliners including Janet Jackson, Christina Aguilera, Ricky Martin and Eric Clapton.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Richie is also expected to be joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edp24.co.uk\/news\/26181473.special-guests-join-lionel-ritchie-sandringham-2026\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">award-winning soul singer Joss Stone<\/a> as a special guest, along with Dave Stewart Eurythmics featuring Vanessa Amorosi, and rising star Brooke Combe.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He has sold more than 125 million albums worldwide and is known for a string of number one hits, including All Night Long, Hello, Dancing on the Ceiling and Truly.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  His accolades include four Grammy Awards, an Oscar, a Golden Globe and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2022.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Richie last played to Norfolk crowds in 2018 as part of his All The Hits tour, which brought him to Holkham Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie, who is set to headline HeritageLive Festival at Sandringham Estate this summer, had to bring his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-657669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}