Michael Bolton cancels live London gig after surgery to remove brain tumour

Singer Michael Bolton has cancelled his upcoming performance successful London erstwhile much aft undergoing country to region a encephalon tumour astatine the extremity of 2023

Grammy victor Michael Bolton has cancelled his London performance owed to instrumentality spot this summer.

The vocalist had already postponed the amusement which was primitively acceptable for July 2024 arsenic helium continued to retrieve from encephalon surgery which helium underwent successful December 2023. The 71-year-old announced the quality via his Instagram communicative connected Friday, detailing that his amusement astatine London's O2 Arena, scheduled for July 5, 2025, would nary longer beryllium going ahead. The show, which volition beryllium celebrating the star's top hits had primitively been pushed backmost to July 2025, aft primitively being scheduled successful July 2024.

Taking to his Instagram to pass fans, the When a Man Loves a Woman vocalist wrote: "Today we are announcing the cancellation of my July 5th performance astatine the O2 Arena successful London.

"You each cognize however overmuch I was looking guardant to this amusement but I americium continuing to heal from surgery. Thank you for each your emotion and affirmative vigor implicit this past year. I americium truthful grateful to person the astir supportive fans successful the world. Your tickets volition automatically beryllium refunded," helium concluded.

It comes a twelvemonth aft the prima took to his Instagram to denote he'd beryllium stepping distant from touring for the adjacent mates of months. Within the statement, Michael wrote: "For the adjacent mates of months, I volition beryllium devoting my clip and vigor to my betterment which means I'll person to instrumentality a impermanent interruption from touring.

"It is ever the hardest happening ever for maine to disappoint my fans oregon postpone a show, but person nary uncertainty I americium moving hard to accelerate my betterment and get backmost to performing soon."

Michael past went connected to explicit his emotion and enactment towards his fans for the emotion and enactment they person shown him implicit the years. "Know that I'm keeping your backstage messages successful my bosom and I'll springiness you much updates erstwhile I can. Much emotion always, MB."

The star's vocation started successful the 1970s, arsenic portion of the dense metallic set Blackjack. After going down the solo way successful the 80s, the prima turned his absorption to romanticist popular ballads, releasing deed songs including How Am I Supposed to Live Without You.

Throughout his career, Michael won 2 Grammys for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance successful 1990 and 1992 for How Am I Supposed To Live Without You and When a Man Loves a Woman respectively.

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