Meat Loaf, who underwent heart surgery after collapsing onstage in London last week, said Friday that doctors have cleared him to resume his stalled British tour.
But the burly singer, renowned for his theatrical, sweat-soaked shows, said he is lucky to be alive after doctors discovered he had Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, a condition that causes an irregular heartbeat.
"In a sense, I guess I cheated death because of the condition I had," he said. "The last two weeks have been fairly scary and unlike anything I've gone through before."
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The 52-year-old singer collapsed during a show at London's Wembley Arena Nov. 17 and was hospitalized with a suspected heart attack.