has been forced to postpone upcoming concerts after being ‘taken ill’, it has been announced.
The 73-year-old American rock singer was due to perform tonight in Philadelphia, but has now had to reschedule the show.
A statement on his X page, formerly known as Twitter, read: ‘Due to Bruce Springsteen having been taken ill, his concerts with The E Street Band at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia on August 16 and 18 have been postponed.’
It added: ‘We are working on rescheduling the dates so please hold on to your as they will be valid for the rescheduled shows.’
In July, after he embarked on his first major tour in six years.
This month, he has upcoming dates at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
The news of him being ‘taken ill’, though details around his health have yet to be confirmed, comes after he cancelled several performances in March in the US, due to illness.
A month later, he abandoned plans to attend the American Music Honor awards show after.
He had been due to attend the ceremony – which raised funds for the university’s Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music – alongside his wife , 69, but had to appear via video message instead after they both fell ill.
‘It broke our hearts around 6 a.m. this morning when I got a call that two of the most important people who were supposed to be here, Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, unfortunately, came down with Covid’, the Archives’ executive director broke the news to the audience at the show.
The show’s host Jon Stewart then tried to lighten the mood, joking: ‘They’re alive. Don’t overreact. You can still see them in concert. They’re home sitting by the fire eating French onion soup.’
