Rock band Aerosmith have cancelled part of their forthcoming Las Vegas residency after frontman Steven Tyler checked himself into rehab.
The star, who had been sober for more than a decade, relapsed after taking pain medication for foot surgery.
The 74-year-old “voluntarily entered a treatment program to concentrate on his health and recovery”, his bandmates said in a statement.
Aerosmith had been due to start their Deuces Are Wild shows on 17 June.
They said Tyler had undergone surgery “to prepare for the stage”, but that the “necessity of pain management during the process” had led him to relapse.
All dates for June and July have now been scrapped. The band said they intend to resume the residency, at the Park MGM, in September.
Earlier this year, Aerosmith cancelled a long-delayed UK and European tour due to “uncertainty around travel logistics and the continued presence of Covid restrictions and other issues”.
They also announced that longtime drummer Joey Kramer was taking a “temporary leave of absence” from the band in order to “focus on his family during these uncertain times”.
Aerosmith became one of America’s biggest rock bands of the 1970s, scoring hits like Sweet Emotion and Dream On, before their career was derailed by drug and alcohol abuse.
