{"id":4492,"date":"2020-02-22T16:26:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T22:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=4492"},"modified":"2020-02-22T16:27:35","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T22:27:35","slug":"klaus-meine-undergoes-surgery-to-remove-kidney-stones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/?p=4492","title":{"rendered":"KLAUS MEINE Undergoes Surgery To Remove Kidney Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/l\/t1.0-9\/p720x720\/85191837_10156582229932373_2177065952510738432_o.jpg?_nc_cat=1&amp;_nc_sid=a61e81&amp;_nc_ohc=pM89rB3rMmMAX918A0y&amp;_nc_ht=scontent-iad3-1.xx&amp;_nc_tp=6&amp;oh=ac3565ef98f9c1022414981f484e6a01&amp;oe=5EF488EC\" alt=\"Image may contain: 2 people, people sitting\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>SCORPIONS<\/b> singer <b>Klaus Meine<\/b> has spoken out for the first time after undergoing surgery to remove kidney stones. As a result of the procedure, the band&#8217;s concert with <b>WHITESNAKE<\/b> in Sydney on Saturday (February 22) had to be postponed.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, the <b>SCORPIONS<\/b> social media was updated with a photo of <b>Meine<\/b> in his hospital bed, along with the following message from the 71-year-old vocalist:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear Fans , the good news first &#8230;. we had a fantastic show in Melbourne Wednesday night at the Rod Laver Arena &#8230;. loved every minute of it &#8230;. it just feels soooo good to be back in Australia !!!! The bad news is&#8230; I have had kidney stone surgery in a Melbourne Hospital &#8230; it was a very painful attack ,&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the hospital they removed the stone, and put in a stent &#8230;. can you imagine how i feel right now ??? So sorry Sydney &#8230;. Do we have to cancel again ??? It looks like it&#8230;. but we are hoping to re-schedule for next week,day to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<b>Dr Katz<\/b> and his team are taking very good care of me &#8230; i\u2019m in the best hands, but i doubt i\u2019ll be back on my feet until early next week&#8230;.. with lots of Love with a Heavy Heart from Melbourne &#8230;. <b>Klaus&#8221;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>SCORPIONS<\/b> and <b>WHITESNAKE<\/b>&#8216;s concert in Brisbane this Monday (February 24) is expected to go ahead as planned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCORPIONS singer Klaus Meine has spoken out for the first time after undergoing surgery to remove kidney stones. As a result of the procedure, the band&#8217;s concert with WHITESNAKE in Sydney on Saturday (February 22) had to be postponed. Earlier today, the SCORPIONS social media was updated with a photo of Meine in his hospital [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4494,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4492\/revisions\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scorpsnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}