Singer Morrissey has been taken to hospital after collapsing on stage during a concert.
Eyewitnesses saw the former Smiths frontman fall to the floor at the start of a show at the Oasis Leisure Centre in Swindon.
Onlookers said he was "straining" to perform the song This Charming Man and slumped to his knees on stage.
Two band members rushed to his side and dragged him offstage.
Eyewitness William Pyle told Sky News Online: "Morrissey came on the stage and said 'Good Evening...probably' before starting his Charming Man song.
"You could tell that he was straining with the vocals and then he just started to look really ill.
"He stumbled and appeared to collapse on the stage. The other band members rushed to his side and helped him off stage.
"The crowd didn't really know what was going on until someone came on and said 'Morrissey has left the building'.
"We were then told that Morrissey was seriously ill and wouldn't be coming back."
The singer has cancelled a series of dates across the country this year because of illness.
A spokeswoman for the Great Western Ambulance Service said: "Just after 9pm we got a call to a 50-year-old man who was reported to be suffering from respiratory problems and was unconscious.
"We sent a paramedic in a doubled-crewed ambulance.
"When they arrived they found a conscious patient who was not feeling well at all.
"They made an initial assessment and took him to the Great Western Hospital for further assessment."
She said his condition was not thought to be life threatening.
A spokeswoman for Swindon's Great Western Hospital said: "Morrissey was brought in to the Accident and Emergency department this evening.
"He has been seen by the medical team. At this stage his condition is stable."
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