Bruce Springsteen’s concerts in Marseille, Prague, and Milan were canceled on doctor’s orders. His Marseille performance was called off on the same day it was scheduled due to vocal issues, as announced on Instagram.
“Bruce is recuperating comfortably,” an update posted on Springsteen’s Instagram account said Sunday (May 26), but went on to announce that more tour dates were being postponed.
“Following yesterday’s postponement in Marseille due to vocal issues, further examination and consulting has led doctors to determine that Bruce should not perform for the next ten days,” the statement said.
“With this in mind, additional postponements are required for Airport Letnany in Prague (originally scheduled for May 28) and San Siro Stadium in Milan (originally scheduled for June 1 and 3).”
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will announce new dates for the canceled concerts, while ticket holders who prefer a refund can obtain one through their original point of purchase.
In March, Springsteen resumed his world tour after a six-month hiatus due to battling peptic ulcer disease, with fears he might never perform live again.
“You sing with your diaphragm. My diaphragm was hurting so badly that when I went to make the effort to sing, it was killing me, you know?” he explained in an interview.
“So, I literally couldn’t sing at all, you know, and that lasted for two or three months, along with just a myriad of other painful problems.”
Springsteen said,
“I was, during the course of it, before people told me, ‘Oh no. It’s gonna go away, and you’re gonna be OK,’ you know, you’re thinking like, ‘Hey, am I gonna sing again?’ and you know, this is one of the things I love to do the best, the most, and right now I can’t do it. You know, I can’t do it, and it took a while for the doctors to say, ‘Oh no. You’re gonna be OK.’ At first, nobody was quite saying that, which made me nervous, you know, and at the end of the day, I found some great doctors, and they straightened me out, and I can’t do anything but thank them all.”
According to the latest update on Sunday, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band are scheduled to resume their stadium tour in Madrid on June 12th.
