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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jacob Stolworthy

Mick Jagger 'having heart surgery to replace damaged valve' as Rolling Stones postpone tour

Mick Jagger is reportedly set to have surgery to replace a damaged valve in his heart.

The Rolling Stones frontman will reportedly receive a stent – a small tube inserted to open up arteries – amid fears over the singer’s health, according to Page Six.

The band postponed their latest tour of the US and Canada after Jagger, 75, was instructed by doctors not to perform.

He tweeted: “I’m devastated for having to postpone the tour but I will be working very hard to be back on stage as soon as I can. I’m so sorry to all our fans in America and Canada with tickets. I really hate letting you down like this.”

After the news broke about Jagger’s health on Sunday, he was spotted on a Miami beach, dispelling concern that the frontman is seriously ill.

The Stones’s No Filter Tour was expected to start on 20 April in Miami and end on 29 June in Oro-Medonte, Ontario. It officially began in September 2017 with a concert in Hamburg, Germany.

They have been forced to cancel sell-out concerts in the past – for example, a Las Vegas show in 2016, when Jagger contracted laryngitis.

Patients receiving a stent usually recover quickly and can be discharged a single day after surgery.

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