{"id":16064,"date":"2014-08-10T01:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=16064"},"modified":"2014-08-10T01:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T00:52:00","slug":"status-quo-cancel-gigs-rick-parfitt-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=16064","title":{"rendered":"Status Quo Cancel Gigs &#8211; Rick Parfitt Ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is&nbsp; bit of bad news. I\u2019m due to go and see Status Quo later this year, but that might not now happen as <a title=\"Status Quo cancel concerts because of Rick Parfitt illness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-28621988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rick Parfitt has been taken ill<\/a> and Quo have been forced to cancel several European gigs due to go ahead in August. It must be quite serious, since the band is touring pretty much all year round most of the time, and they don\u2019t cancel lightly.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Status Quo\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/296;border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Status Quo\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/status_quo21.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"296\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>Rick has had heart bypass surgery in the past, and has also been treated for suspected (but ultimately benign) throat cancer (which I didn\u2019t know about).<\/p>\n<p>No word yet on what the problem is, but apparently we should find out this week. Hopefully, Rick &#8211; who is 65 &#8211; will be all right whether the tour continues or not. I mean, sod the tour &#8211; hope you get well soon, Rick! <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Good news! <a title=\"Status Quo's Rick Parfitt Recuperating From Illness\" href=\"http:\/\/www.antimusic.com\/news\/14\/August\/08Status_Quos_Rick_Parfitt_Recuperating_From_Illness.shtml#.U-bBWWd0wwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">It looks like Rick is OK<\/a> and will be back on stage during the summer. Apparently it was a furred up valve from his previous bypass operations, which has been rectified by the use of a stent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is&nbsp; bit of bad news. I\u2019m due to go and see Status Quo later this year, but that might not now happen as Rick Parfitt has been taken ill and Quo have been forced to cancel several European gigs due to go ahead in August. It must be quite serious, since the band is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}