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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Maybe the monkeys didn't like his advances.....
"he looks like us, but he doesn't look like us..."
Maybe he was just giving it a hug.
He's been out of his tree for a long time
I think I saw his twin brother.He was living in a cardboard box in an alley off Prospect in Cleveland.
"He is 62. Why was he in the tree?"
He doesn't know.
maybe he planned to rehearse some songs from their old album, "Black and Blue"
Where are all my friends, coming down again
It's one more hit to the body
Oh help me, please doctor, I'm damaged
I assume he was looking for a ship on the horizon.
Take away the clothes, expensive jewelry and of course the famous name and what do ya got?
Just your averagenasty, degenerate street derelict.
UGH!
How drunk was Richards at the time?
(HOW DRUNK WAS HE?)
He was sooo drunk that he thought Down Under you fall up.
Visiting his relatives, parasailing, practicing his swan dive, pretending to be Josie Wells?
You go to scrape the _ _ _ _ right off of your shoes. Or you might slip while climbing a tree.
Keith Richards. After he fell out of a tree.
Oh, wait....or was this before? Who can tell?
Oh dear...he's only 62?! Appears to be about 80+.
Looks like he fell out of the tree naked. Now there's a bad image to start my day with.
nothing much to hurt there.
Sorry to start you off with a drugged-out, over-the-hill creep staring at you. LOL.
Drugs will do that to a guy.
LOL! His wife sees this every morning.
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