Aerosmith’s Joe Perry hospitalized but stable after becoming ill on stage
Reporting from New York — Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has been taken to a hospital after he was forced to leave the stage while performing in New York City.
Perry became ill around 9:30 p.m. Sunday while performing with Johnny Depp and Alice Cooper in Perry’s side band, Hollywood Vampires, at Ford Amphitheater in Brooklyn’s Coney Island.
An administrator at Coney Island Hospital confirmed that Perry, 65, is undergoing tests.
Hollywood Vampires record label representative Sujata Murthy said Perry is “stable and resting.†Cooper also tweeted that Perry is stable and with family.
A video posted by a fan on social media shows Perry sitting down on stage and then walking off in the middle of a song.
The band continued playing after Perry left the stage.
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