British rock legend David Bowie has undergone emergency heart surgery for a blocked artery.
The singer is recovering at home in New York after an operation to clear an obstructed artery last month. He hopes to return to work in August, his publicist Mr Mitch Schneider said.
Bowie (57) sought treatment in a German hospital on June 25th after complaining of a pinched nerve during a European concert tour, the publicist said in a statement. The London-born singer was forced to cancel dates on the tour including one in Ireland last month.
He underwent an angioplasty operation for an acutely blocked artery and was able to leave the clinic earlier this week.
"I'm so pissed off because the last 10 months of this tour have been so . . . fantastic. Can't wait to be fully recovered and get back to work again. I tell you what, though, I won't be writing a song about this one," Bowie said in the statement.
Bowie is one of Britain's most enduring and fascinating rock stars since his break-out hit Space Oddityin the early 1970s.
He reinvented himself many times, changing from the glam-rock, androgene Ziggy Stardust persona in 1972 to Aladdin Sane in 1973 and on to the elegant Thin White Duke in the late 1970s.
Songs like Golden Years, Changesand Let's Dancehave been among a string of worldwide hits spanning three decades.
In 1992, he married Somalian supermodel Imam and the couple have a young child.