Not much can keep Kiss' Paul Stanley from rock 'n' rolling all night and partying every day.
But the rocker did have to bow out of a Southern California concert Friday after suffering heart palpitations and shortness of breath, according to a statement on his website.
"During sound check yesterday, my heart spontaneously jumped to 190 plus beats per minute where it stayed for over an hour necessitating paramedics to start an IV and give me a shot to momentarily stop my heart and get it into a normal pattern," the singer-guitarist wrote in a message posted Saturday.
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Not knowing if this episode was life-threatening made it even more exhausting. After consulting with both the paramedics and a cardiologist at Cedar-Sinai [Medical Center in Los Angeles], they confirmed my worst fear. They said that I would put myself at risk if I tried to do the show."
The 55-year-old Stanley, whose real name is Stanley Eisen, took the doctors' advice and was admitted to the hospital.
However, Kiss decided to go on with the show at Soboba Casino in San Jacinto, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles.
Stanley's longtime band mate, singer-bassist Gene Simmons was joined by lead guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer, marking the first time in the band's three-decade-plus run that KISS performed as a trio.
Read more at E!Online.
i hope everything's going to be ok with paul...