Meat Loaf Collapses On Stage During Concert

American rocker Meat Loaf has collapsed on stage during a concert in Canada.

The 68-year-old, whose real name is Marvin Lee Aday, was singing his 1993 hit I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) when he fell and was rushed to hospital.



Video and photographs taken by fans at the concert posted online show him bending over, dropping his microphone and falling to the floor before security personnel ran onto the stage to help him.

Fans at the gig at the Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton, Alberta, were told to vacate the arena.

"I was scared. I didn't know what to think," 17-year-old fan Sophia Shandalla told the Edmonton Journal.

Wishing you the best Meat Loaf. Thank you for the show. We all hope you're going to recover. #YEG #meatloaf pic.twitter.com/PmG8fKWEeG

— Sylvia Douglas (@elunanuv) June 17, 2016

"I didn’t know if it was real. All of the band stopped playing instantly," said her mother, Lotta Shandalla.

The singer's condition is not known, but the fall comes just days after he postponed two other shows - in Regina on Saturday and in Calgary on Tuesday - due to illness.

In April 2013, the performer whose 1977 album Bat Out Of Hell remains one of the biggest sellers of all time, pulled out of two concerts in the UK in Nottingham and Manchester, citing health problems.

He said at the time it would be his last tour, but nevertheless has continued performing over the years.