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• Drugs overdose proves to be exhausting

  Published: August 9, 2007, 2:57 am

  Tags: Rock Sick List, Amy Winehouse

  The Sun - while acknowledging the official line that Amy Winehouse is "exhausted" - splashes this morning with claims from an eyewitness to her arrival at hospital, and what went on:Tattooed Amy, whose stick-thin frame and sallow complexion has worried friends and fans alike, was given an adrenaline shot in the early hours drama. And she had her

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• When you lose control of the press

  Published: August 9, 2007, 12:45 pm

  Tags: Rock Sick List, Drugs, Amy Winehouse

  Poor Amy Winehouse. Even Hello! can't bring itself to run the official "extreme exhaustion" line without quote marks.

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• Winehouse offered rehab; responds with catchphrase

  Published: August 11, 2007, 7:24 am

  Tags: Rock Sick List, Victoria Newton, Drugs, Amy Winehouse, Rehab

  Victoria Newton's notoriously unreliable Bizarre column has attempted to scoop the others with its Amy Winehouse coverage:AMY WINEHOUSE fears she is on the verge of suicide but still won't go to rehab, I can exclusively reveal.I can also disclose the disturbing development that the star had been smoking HEROIN on the night she

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• Allen has note from her Dad. Sorry, doctor

  Published: August 13, 2007, 8:45 am

  Tags: Rock Sick List, Lily Allen, Festivals, Cancellation

  Almost as if she feels that Amy Winehouse has spoiled it for the rest of them, Lily Allen has posted a photo of her holding up her doctor's note which has signed off her performing for her next run of festival bookings:I've got sinusitis and strep throat ( i don't even know what that is ) and have been advised to take a couple of weeks off by a

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• Singer in a coma

  Published: August 19, 2007, 9:18 am

  Tags: Rock Sick List, Haydain Neale, Jacksoul, Accidents

  Haydain Neale, singer with Tornto-based Jacksoul, remains in a coma two weeks after being knocked off his scooter in a collision with a car.Police have yet to complete investigations into the cause of the accident - "out of respect for the family". Neale is reported to be critical but stable; the extent of his head injuries haven't been made

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• Mika's ears save everyone else's ears

  Published: August 20, 2007, 8:22 am

  Tags: Rock Sick List, Mika

  The surprisingly pleased-with-himself Mika is taking a break from music in order to fight an ear infection.Apparently, he can tell something is wrong with his ears because everytime he plays back his album, instead of hearing the epoch-framing work of art he's certain he recorded, he hears a collection of squeaky rejects from the Balamory musical.

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• Rock sick list: Karl Alvarez

  Published: August 24, 2007, 12:56 pm

  Tags: Karl Alvarez, The Descendents, Rock Sick List, Appeals

  Some bad news: Karl Alvarez, from The Descendents and ALL, had a minor heart attack at the start of the month.Some good news: He's going to be alright.Some more bad news: Karl is American, and in a punk band. Which isn't the best combination when you're running up medical bills. A campaign has been launched to try and help out: there's a MySpace

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• More woe Diddley

  Published: August 28, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Rock Sick List, Bo Diddley

  Bad news from Florida this evening: Bo Diddley has had a heart attack. What makes the news especially worrying is that he had the attack while getting a medical check-up, which suggests someone who is very ill indeed.

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• Supergrass sleepwalk to disaster

  Published: August 31, 2007, 12:18 pm

  Tags: Rock Sick List, Mick Quinn, Accidents, Supergrass

  In what BBC News undersate as a "freak accident", Mick Quinn out of Supergrass has sleepwalked his way out of a first-floor window and broken his back.As a result, Supergrass have suspended all their dates until he's better - he is supposed to make a full recovery. The BBC have also had to ort through their photo library and - discovering no

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• White Stripes leave Austin

  Published: September 11, 2007, 4:33 pm

  Tags: White Stripes, Rock Sick List, City Limits Festival, Austin, Cancellation

  The White Stripes have pulled their Saturday appearance at the Austin City Limits festival, citing "medical reasons". No further information - sciatica? temporary colour blindness? - is forthcoming.

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• Meg White's high anxiety

  Published: September 12, 2007, 4:42 pm

  Tags: White Stripes, Rock Sick List, Meg White, Cancellation

  and are very sorry."It's a rock and a hard place - do you play, and feel anxious about that, or cancel, and feel anxious about the not

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• More bad ends from the MTV Awards

  Published: September 12, 2007, 4:36 pm

  Tags: Mastodon, Rock Sick List, Brent Hinds, Accidents, Mtv Video Music Awards

  The damaged heads following MTV's Sunday nights weren't limited to Britney Spears' people banging their skulls agianst any surfaces they could find. Oh, no. Brent Hinds of Mastodonwound up in hospital with unexplained head injuries:Hinds' nose was also broken, and he sustained two black eyes, according to the band's manager, Nick John.[...]John

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• Growing anxiety

  Published: September 13, 2007, 9:21 am

  Tags: White Stripes, Rock Sick List, Meg White, Cancellation

  Following the anxiety-induced axing of the US tour, The White Stripes have now pulled their UK dates, too.

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• Gallows and a cracked head

  Published: September 16, 2007, 3:37 pm

  Tags: Stoke, Gallows, Rock Sick List, Frank Carter

  Ow, ow, ow: Gallows' gig in Stoke last night ended in blood, mother, blood when Frank Carter cracked his head open. He'd been mucking about with a fan who'd run on stage when the sort of dire warning your Mum used to shout came true. The band limped on while Carter went to hospital, but eventually the gig was abandoned.Carter - after a spot of

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• Is 'not been in OK for a fortnight' contagious?

  Published: September 21, 2007, 2:38 am

  Tags: Rock Sick List, Kerry Katona

  Kerry Katona has been popping in to hospital for tests following the development of a mystery illness. They're pretty certain it isn't down to not defrosting a cheap leg of lamb from Iceland before eating it. Perhaps she caught that nasty thing which brought Peter Andre out in a rash of headlines earlier this year.

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