Fans Furious After Lionel Richie Cancels Madison Square Garden Show At Last Minute, Doubt His Claim Of ‘Severe Weather’
etcanada.comLionel Richie angered thousands of New York City fans on Saturday night when he didn’t make it to his concert at Madison Square Garden, cancelling the show more than an hour after it had been scheduled to start.
According to Deadline, promoters pulled the plug on the sold-out show — on which Richie shared the bill with Earth, Wind & Fire — more than hour after it was supposed to have started, disappointing the 19,000-plus fans in attendance who had been patiently awaiting his arrival. READ MORE: Lionel Richie Shrugs Off Plastic Surgery Rumours; Credits Sex To Maintaining A Youthful Appearance “Due to severe weather and being unable to land in the NY and surrounding areas, I’m unable to make it to the show tonight,” Richie wrote on Twitter at 8:31 p.m., with the show scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. “I’m so bummed,” he added. “We are rescheduling the show to Monday Aug.
14. Can’t wait to perform for you all.” As Deadline points out, Earth, Wind & Fire is scheduled to play a concert in Bridgeport, Connecticut on Monday — solo, without Richie — so it remains to be seen whether they’ll be able to make the rescheduled gig.
Meanwhile, the New York Post reports that fans reacted with anger to the cancellation, particularly since it wasn’t announced until they’d already been inside the venue for well over an hour. “There was a lot of anger,” on fan told the Post. “We went out of the way to get the weekend off and now I can’t go on Monday.
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