Patti Smith, 76, cancels show as she's rushed to hospital with 'sudden illness'
Patti Smith's latest concert is said to have been cancelled due to her having a "sudden illness".
The Priestess of Rock is reportedly being kept under safe observation for the meantime. The 76-year-old was set to perform at the Duse theatre last night but according to TG Com 24, the show has been called off following the hospital dash.
A statement from the theatre reads: 'With great regret, we inform the kind audience that Patti Smith's concert will not be able to go on stage due to a sudden illness that struck the artist.
"We are all sorry for the inconvenience caused by this news. Our best wishes for a speedy recovery go to the artist."
Patti's most recent performance was at the Modena Cathedral over the weekend, which forms part of an eight-date Italian tour. Her next performance is booked for the 14th December at the Malibran theatre in Venice, but it's unsure whether it'll still go on.
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Patti has been hospitalised (Alessandro Bremec/LaPresse/REX/Shutterstock)The Mirror US have reached out to Patti's representatives for more information.
The Rock star made headlines last year when her controversial song Rock n Roll N****r, which was released alongside the Patti Smith Group's 1978 Album, Easter, was removed by Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal and Amazon Music. She said in previous interviews that she used the derogatory term "as a way of reinventing it … like the kids did with the word punk."
In 1996, she said: "I was taking this archaic use of the word n****r and sort of reinventing it. It was the idea of taking a word that was specific and hurtful to people and obliterating it, blowing that apart and reinventing it so it was more like a badge of courage."
In the track, she uses the word to describe Jimi Hendrix, Jesus Christ "and grandma, too," before saying the word eight consecutive times. Patti also used the word in the song to describe Mick Jagger, triggering backlash from listeners.
In her defence, she said: "On our liner notes, I redefined the word n****r as being an artist mutant that was going beyond gender." Then when prompted that Jagger hadn't suffered "like anyone who grew up in Harlem," she retorted: "Suffering don't make you a n****r.
She explained why she used to term (Getty Images)"I mean, I grew up poor, too. … Ya think black people are better than white people or something? I was raised with black people. It's like, I can walk down the street and say to a kid, 'Hey n****r.'"
"I don't have any kind of super-respect or fear of that kind of stuff. When I say statements like that, they're not supposed to be analysed, 'cause they're more like off-the-cuff humorous statements."
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