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Matthew Sweet Suffers ‘Debilitating’ Stroke, GoFundMe Launched to Help With Recovery

Matthew Sweet, the veteran alt-rock singer-songwriter behind Nineties hit singles “Girlfriend” and “I’ve Been Waiting," has suffered a stroke.

His longtime manager, Russell Carter, confirmed the news in a statement to Rolling Stone on Tuesday, and said Sweet was forced to cancel his cross-country tour and shows with fellow musicians after “suffering a debilitating stroke in Toronto late Saturday evening” on Oct. 12. “Due to a medical illness and on doctors advice, Matthew Sweet must cancel all remaining upcoming shows with Hanson, and his own headline dates, from October 10 thru November 16,” read the post on social media. In Carter’s statement, he said that Sweet is “now on a long, difficult road to recovery.” He added that the singer-songwriter “has always been intensely focused and tenacious in all of his endeavors — not only in his recording career, but in all of his artistic and intellectual pursuits.

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