London, Nov 29: American rock star Meat Loaf said Friday he hoped to resume his tour soon, despite suffering anxiety attacks two weeks after collapsing on a London stage and undergoing heart surgery. The 56-year-old, famed for "Bat Out Of Hell," had a two-hour operation after doctors diagnosed his condition as Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, a heart defect that causes an irregular heartbeat.
"The last two weeks have been very scary and unlike anything I've gone through before," the star, carrying a rugby ball in homage to England's World Cup victory, told a news conference.
He was forced to cancel a concert in Manchester, northern England, but hoped to resume his tour in Dublin Tuesday.
"I've been going on stage since some time in the 1960s... But I have to admit, I'm a little bit nervous. I'm having a few anxiety attacks," he said.

Meat Loaf's operation was carried out to remove an extra electrical pathway in the heart which causes an irregular and accelerated heartbeat, he said.

"Your heartbeat can get up to 300 beats per minute and then it explodes, so that would have been uncomfortable," he said.
"I guess I cheated death."
Bureau Report