MADRID, Spain - Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is recovering after collapsing onstage while on tour in eastern Spain late Friday, his music company said Saturday.
The veteran poet and performer has been released from hospital after suffering from a stomach complaint, Doctor Music Concerts said in a statement.
Cohen was part-way through his "Bird on the Wire" song in Valencia when he fainted, causing the band to stop playing to rush to his aid as concertgoers watched. The concert was stopped.
A video showing Cohen kneeling down several times during the performance and then keeling over sideways during a saxophone solo has been placed on YouTube by a fan.
Cohen, who will be 75 years-old Monday, was taken in an ambulance to the Nueve de Octubre hospital in Valencia but was released early Saturday.
Cohen was due to perform the last show of his Spanish tour at the Palau Sant Jordi concert hall in Barcelona on Monday. Trucks carrying Cohen's show had arrived at the hall Saturday morning and were to be set up as normal, a spokesman for the concert hall said.
Cohen had to come out of retirement five years ago when he discovered that most of his retirement fund had disappeared in a disputed case of mismanagement.
After leaving Spain, Cohen was due to perform next at the BankAtlantic Center in Sunrise, Fla., on Oct. 17, his website said.
