Singer Meat Loaf collapses on stage during concert

US musician Meat Loaf collapsed on stage during a concert in

Canada

.

Video footage from Thursday's concert in

Edmonton

shows the singer, whose real name is

Marvin Lee Aday

, falling on stage during his performance, reported BBC News.


Earlier in the week he had cancelled shows in

Moose Jaw

and

Calgary

, saying he was ill. The 68-year-old is one of the most successful recording artists of all time with hits including 'Bat Out of Hell'. He was performing another hit, 'I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)', when he dropped his microphone and fell to the floor, video footage showed.

Musicians went to his side to help and the music stopped. A spokesman for

Alberta Health Services

said a patient had been transported from the auditorium to a hospital. Fans said they initially believed his collapse could have been a planned part of his performance, the

Edmonton Journal

newspaper reported.

The Northern Jubilee Auditorium in Edmonton was cleared shortly afterwards and ambulances were seen outside the venue, the newspaper said. Loaf previously collapsed in 2003 at a performance in

London

, and again in 2011, during a July concert in

Pittsburgh

, an incident which he later blamed on an asthma attack.