Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler Falls From Stage During Concert
August 6, 2009 by Amber
Filed under Celebrity, Steven Tyler
Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler has been airlifted to hospital after falling from a stage during a concert at South Dakota’s Sturgis Motorcycle Rally.
The 61-year-old entertainer fell while he was dancing around on stage after a sound system failure cut off the band’s music in the middle of their hit song, Love In An Elevator, according to the venue’s spokesman, Mike Sanborn.
Tyler was doing his best to keep the crowd entertained while the sound issue was fixed, Sandborn said, and was on the stage’s catwalk when he “fell backward onto a couple of fans.” Security rushed in to help him, with the record crowd cheering when the singer got back up.
Sanborn explained: “[Tyler] was good natured about it. He was in good spirits when he got in the helicopter. He was talking and joking with the physician.”
“It was an unfortunate end to an extraordinary evening,” the venue spokesman added.
Tyler suffered minor head and neck injuries and a shoulder injury in the fall, but it isn’t clear exactly how serious these injuries are.
Tyler suffered minor head and neck injuries and a shoulder injury, but it wasn’t immediately clear how serious that was, he said.
The fall occurred at around 12:15 a.m., and Tyler was taken backstage immediately after the fall. Shortly after, Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry came back out on stage and told the audience that the show was canceled, as Tyler needed to be taken to the hospital.
Tyler was airlifted to the Rapid City Regional Hospital, the only major hospital in the region, Sanborn said.
TMZ.com have obtained footage of Tyler’s fall from the stage. If you’d like to check it out, click here.
Here’s hoping the ol’ dude’s ok.
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