Popular singer and songwriter, Barry Manilow ended up in a wheelchair after he collapsed at the end of his shows. He revealed that he had undergone a hip operation. This happened in 2012.
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During that year, he revealed in an interview that he was able to finish most of his sure purely based on willpower.
“As soon as I’d finish, the curtain would close and I’d fall back in a wheelchair and they’d wheel me back into a dressing room. I’m not ready to do this yet, but I did it. I got through it and I’m better than I was three weeks ago,” he expressed in an interview during that time.
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“Everybody thinks I had some sort of a hip replacement; that wasn’t it. I had rippled the muscles off my hip on both sides and they had to pull them back and nail them back into my hips. So that kind of surgery which was supposed to take two hours took seven hours. It was major surgery, and it’s a long recovery period,” he added.
Why did Barry Manilow cancel his concert?
Barry Manilow canceled his December 2022 A Very Barry Christmas show due to his atrial fibrillation (Afib). He was quickly sent to the hospital to be treated.
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