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Pop veteran Edwyn Collins to quit the stage 20 years after suffering a stroke and haemorrhages
Scots pop singer Edwyn Collins is to quit performing live after a farewell tour later this year. The 65-year-old said he decided to halt touring due to his age.
The Edinburgh-born singer, told BBC Scotland News he had decided the run of dates in September and October would be his last because ‘I’d be a very old man by the time the next one [tour] rolled around, and that’s not for me’. He was left unable to walk, talk or read after the stroke and haemorrhages and spent several months in hospital after a surgical scar became infected with the MRSA bug. His farewell tour will begin at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow on 29 September, before going to Buxton, Bath, Southampton, Brighton, London, Norwich and Manchester, before ending at the Boiler Shop in Newcastle on 8 October.
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