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Bleeding ulcers cause severely alcoholic Eric Clapton to be hospitalised in St Paul, Minnesota, USA, forcing him to cancel all the remaining dates of his massive tour of the USA in support of the album Another Ticket.Full article:
Eric Clapton : I was in America and was admitted into a hospital in St. Paul, Minnesota, with three ulcers - and one of them was bleeding - and I was on my way out. They said I was lucky. They said, when they got me to the hospital, they thought I was going to die in the ambulance because one of the ulcers had ruptured and was bleeding.. And I didn't give a f*ck. I just thought, 'How soon can I get out of here and get a drink?'
(Source : interview with Stuart Clarke, Sunday Times magazine, 1999)
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(Source : interview with Stuart Clarke, Sunday Times magazine, 1999)