{"id":8187,"date":"2026-09-01T18:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=8187"},"modified":"2026-09-01T18:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:38:23","slug":"lionel-richie-set-to-play-the-bay-area-hospitalized-in-intensive-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=8187","title":{"rendered":"Lionel Richie, set to play the Bay Area, hospitalized in intensive care"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p>Lionel Richie is in an intensive care in a St. Louis hospital, according to reports from TMZ and other news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=8185\">H-1B visa: Trump administration proposes new rule to strip right to work from visa holders\u2019 spouses<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSources with direct knowledge tell TMZ \u2026 Lionel checked himself into a local hospital after his Saturday night (Aug. 29) performance at The Muny in Forest Park (area of St. Louis) to have some tests run,\u201d TMZ reports. \u201cWitnesses at the concert tell us Lionel appeared to be struggling a bit toward the end of the show, asking his team to bring him a chair while performing his final song, \u2018All Night Long,\u2019 so he could sit down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no word on what might be ailing Richie or his current medical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=8183\">Beast from the East Bay: When the Oakland Raiders ruled the NFL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Richie, a longtime road warrior, has a few weeks off before his next scheduled gig \u2014 which falls on Sept. 26 at Chase Center in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>That gig at the home of the Golden State Warriors is itself a make-up\/reschedule date from early August, when the gig was called off \u2014 just minutes before showtime \u2014 due to a member of tour co-headliner Earth, Wind &amp; Fire\u2019s band needing medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextcitydigest.com\/?p=8181\">Man and woman charged with setting up San Leandro drug dealer who was shot during robbery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionel Richie, whose next concert is at Chase Center in San Francisco, reportedly is in an intensive care unit in a St. Louis hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-things-to-do"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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