lovetoaster
January-26th-2011, 09:58 AM
Don't know how many Buffett fans we have here, but Jimmy fell off of the stage at the end of his Sydney, Austrailia concert last night. I am a huge fan, and hope he is OK.
After singing "It's been a lovely cruise, I'm sorry it's ended" singer Jimmy Buffett crashed off the stage after his final Sydney concert last night and was rushed to hospital with a head injury.
Shocked fans at the sell-out concert at the Hordern Pavilion were urged to leave the auditorium by Buffett's Australian tour manager Michael Chugg as the 64-year-old entertainer lay on the floor in front of the first row of seating waiting for paramedics and an ambulance to arrive.
He was rushed to Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, in Darlinghurst, thirty minutes after the accident.
Neither Chugg nor his assistant David Pope would comment on Buffett's condition at the scene but an audience member said it appeared the entertainer had struck his head and was bleeding as he lay on the floor.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/music/singer-jimmy-buffett-falls-off-the-stage-in-sydney-taken-to-hospital/story-e6frexl9-1225995131778
TMZ reports that there were "flashing lights" splashed on the stage that likely made it difficult to see.
Sean Fogarty, who was also front and center, tells TMZ Jimmy was doing an encore at the end of the concert called "Lovely Cruise" and walking along the edge of the stage when the lighting person splashed "a huge flash of light" along the stage, making it impossible to see and he fell. Fogarty says the next thing he knew he heard Buffett's head strike the metal on his way to the floor.
http://www.tmz.com/2011/01/26/jimmy-buffett-hospitalized-stage-fall-sydney-australia-hospital-head-injury/
After singing "It's been a lovely cruise, I'm sorry it's ended" singer Jimmy Buffett crashed off the stage after his final Sydney concert last night and was rushed to hospital with a head injury.
Shocked fans at the sell-out concert at the Hordern Pavilion were urged to leave the auditorium by Buffett's Australian tour manager Michael Chugg as the 64-year-old entertainer lay on the floor in front of the first row of seating waiting for paramedics and an ambulance to arrive.
He was rushed to Sydney's St Vincent's Hospital, in Darlinghurst, thirty minutes after the accident.
Neither Chugg nor his assistant David Pope would comment on Buffett's condition at the scene but an audience member said it appeared the entertainer had struck his head and was bleeding as he lay on the floor.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/music/singer-jimmy-buffett-falls-off-the-stage-in-sydney-taken-to-hospital/story-e6frexl9-1225995131778
TMZ reports that there were "flashing lights" splashed on the stage that likely made it difficult to see.
Sean Fogarty, who was also front and center, tells TMZ Jimmy was doing an encore at the end of the concert called "Lovely Cruise" and walking along the edge of the stage when the lighting person splashed "a huge flash of light" along the stage, making it impossible to see and he fell. Fogarty says the next thing he knew he heard Buffett's head strike the metal on his way to the floor.
http://www.tmz.com/2011/01/26/jimmy-buffett-hospitalized-stage-fall-sydney-australia-hospital-head-injury/