Posted on 04/29/2006 8:00:46 AM PDT by lunarbicep
Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards suffered a mild concussion while vacationing in Fiji and was flown to a New Zealand hospital for treatment, a band spokeswoman said Saturday.
Media reports said Richards fell out of a palm tree and remained hospitalized in Auckland.
Richards, 62, suffered a mild concussion while on holiday in Fiji earlier this week and was flown to New Zealand, band spokeswoman Fran Curtis said in a statement.
"Following treatment locally and as a precautionary measure, he flew to a hospital accompanied by his wife, Patti, for observation," Curtis said.
The statement did not elaborate on Richards' condition.
But media reports in Australian and New Zealand said Richards hurt his head after falling out of a palm tree at an exclusive Fiji resort and remained hospitalized in Auckland.
Newspapers in the Fairfax media group reported in their Sunday editions that Richards was flown to Auckland's Ascot Hospital on Thursday after the accident.
Steve Kirby, duty manager at the Ascot Hospital, would not comment on whether Richards was a patient there, citing the hospital's privacy policy.
The Fijilive.com news Web site reported that the accident was believed to have happened at Fiji's exclusive Wakaya Club resort.
Salesi Finau of the resort told The Associated Press that Richards and his wife recently stayed at the resort for about a week but would not say when they left.
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If an aging drug-addled rock star falls in the forest, does it make a sound?
He is 62. Why was he in the tree?
Sometimes you fall like a coconut.....some times you don't.
His brain is cooked anyway so it won't make much if any difference.
So, what was he doing up the tree. And does this mean that he's really out of his tree?
How could they tell he'd suffered a concussion? He's been dead for about 30 years...
D@mn you, coffee all over the monitor!
The Stones did a famous song, Get Off of My Cloud. Would love to hear them do "Get Out of My Tree."
I wonder if there was a dispute between Keith and a local monkey in the Palm Tree?
He must have thought they said cocainenuts.
His face done hit every branch of that Ugly Tree on the way down.
"Hey man give the bong back to me. Oh look mate, I can fly..........."
Lucky for him he landed on his head.
Andy Jackson was about that age when President. The similarity ends there.
How on earth can they ever determine if the blow had any adverse effects?
You made me laugh....thank you.
"He went all the way,
All the way down..."
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