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Punk rock poet Patti Smith said she is “resting, as the doctor ordered” after she was briefly hospitalized over an unspecified illness along the Italian leg of her tour earlier this week.
The “Piss Factory” songstress, 76, abruptly canceled a performance in Bologna on Tuesday night after coming down with what venue officials described as a “sudden illness.” A day later, the Local Health Authority of Bologna told the Los Angeles Times that Smith had been discharged after being held for “a short period of observation in emergency medicine.”
Officials told the Times that Smith was “in good health,” adding in its statement that her medical team believes the septuagenarian rocker will be able to return to the stage after “an appropriate period of rest.”