Bob Marley Collapsed on Stage

In September 23, 1980, Bob Marley collapsed on stage during a concert in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Bob Marley’s Uprising Tour was a concert tour organized to support his album Uprising recorded under Bob Marley & the Wailers. Sadly it was Marley's last tour and the biggest music tour of Europe in that year.

The tour started at the Hallenstadion in Zurich, Switzerland, where Marley performed for the first time, on May 30, 1980, and ended at the Stanley Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 23, 1980, which was Marley's last concert. Two days prior to the Pittsburgh show, after playing two shows at the Madison Square Garden, Marley collapsed while jogging in Central Park. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor and was given less than a month to live by doctors.

Despite the horrible news, Marley played one final show in Pittsburgh where he again collapsed. He collapsed on stage before finally being flown to Miami. Marley went to a few treatment clinics in the United States; Boston, New York and Miami. Every place he visited only gave him the sad news that he would only last for a month. The doctors verified that the singer had cancer in the brain, lungs and stomach. On hearing this, Marley then left for Germany to receive cancer treatment which eventually was not successful but prolonged his life 6 months more than any medical clinic in the United States predicted, as Marley passed away in May 1981.


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