The Rock’n ‘N’ Roll icon, Tommy James, would have failed at the end of his performance at the Golden Nugget showroom on Friday evening. The leader of the Shondells who made “Mony Mony” a singing classic could not go to this show closing issue, which rises about an hour in the concert.
Several members of the public say that James stopped singing during “Do Something to Me”, just before “Mony Mony” and the recall of the scheduled 90 -minute program. The 77 -year -old headliner then started to breathe strongly, fell back and placed herself in front of the drums.
Golden Nugget Reps said on Saturday that paramedical paramedics and the safety of gold nuggets had treated James on the spot, and the singer left in the morning without incident. James’ management said in an email on Saturday that the singer was OK and returned home in New Jersey.
While the public member Bill Freeze published on Facebook, “we enjoyed the first hour with successes like” Crystal Blue Persuasion “and” Hanky Panky “, then I noticed that Tommy was breathing strongly and that he tried to sit …” Freeze added that James “seemed to take place and was immediately helped to get out of the scene.” James sat on the rising column until the arrival of the help.
The fan of passionate music from Las Vegas, John Wilen, said: “He never got the end of the main set, which means that they just started” to do something to me “, and he could not continue.”
Wilen is a regular in the GN Friday evening concert series and caught James and the Shondells a year ago in the same place. “”What the public missed last night was his entry into the crowd for his “meeting and salvation”. »»
ALong with “Mony Mony” at the end of the set, James did not sing “Sweet Cherry Wine”, “Mirage” and the cover of “Mony Mony”. These are the songs he interpreted to close his latest show before Friday, at Florida Strawberry Festival in Plant City on February 27.
This is not James’ first medical incident on a career that started in the late 1950s. He collapsed out of stage following a show in Birmingham, Alabama, in March 1970. Multiple accounts describe the incident as a reaction to drug abuse. As part of James Lore, the rocker would have been declared dead. In terms of casino, he has been playing with the money from the house since.
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