Kid Rock Hospitalized for Dehydration
Originally posted Saturday June 14, 2008 12:35 PM EDT
Kid Rock was rushed to the hospital minutes before he was to head on stage Friday at a music festival in England, according to British press reports.
Organizers of the Download Festival said the rocker, 37, had been hospitalized in Nottingham, which is 99 miles north of London. He was suffering from stomach cramps and dehydration, his spokesman told the music magazine NME.
Rock had been due on the festival's main stage around 3.30 p.m. Friday, but an announcement came over the public-address system a few minutes before saying Rock was unwell.
He had reportedly attended a late-night event at Central London's Whisky Mist nightclub that had continued into the early hours of June 13.