The 48 year old British singer, George Michael, has been forced to postpone a series of concerts after falling ill with pneumonia. The 65-show tour of Europe was announced in May when the singer told a press conference, ‘I felt very reenergised after my recent troubles, I felt it was really what I want to do as an artist’.

He was taken into hospital in Vienna where he was he was due to perform on Monday and has postponed dates in Strasbourg, scheduled for last night and Cardiff where he was due to perform this weekend.