Music legend Max Merritt has been admitted to a hospital in the United States because of a kidney failure. New Zealand-born Merritt, who has spent around 20 years in Los Angeles had just returned to the US after touring his Native place.
Merritt’s manager Wal Bishop revealed that the singer had not been keeping well. He said that the 66 year old was exhausted and badly dehydrated after he came back from New Zealand. The musician was admitted to a Los Angeles hospital and is under treatment.
The singer-songwriter was born on April 30, 1941, in Christchurch, New Zealand and took his first guitar lessons when he was just 12-years-old. Merritt and his band The Meteors first became famous in the 1960s and 1970s. Merritt is still famous for the hits ‘Slippin’ Away’ and ‘Western Union Man’.
Merritt toured Australia in 2002 as part of the Long Way to the Top concert series, which also featured legendary singers like former Easybeats frontman Stevie Wright, Ross Wilson and the late Billy Thorpe.
