Al Di Meola ‘stable’ after suffering heart attack in Romania

By editorial board on September 29, 2023

The award-winning US guitarist Al Di Meola is in a stable condition after suffering a heart attack in Romania’s capital, a hospital official said.

Di Meola, 69, is said to have become ill after he began playing a concert at a venue in Bucharest at 9pm on Wednesday night (7pm BST).

In a statement, the Bagdasar-Arseni emergency hospital said he was admitted to a cardiology ward where he is being treated for a segment elevation myocardial infarction.

According to the healthcare website Cleveland Clinic, a Stemi mainly affects the heart’s lower chambers and “tend(s) to be more severe and dangerous compared to other types of heart attack”.

Di Meola’s decades-long career has earned him widespread critical acclaim and awards including a Grammy.

The guitar maestro  on 2020   recorded an intimate take on a selection of Lennon and McCartney classics.

Di Meola returned  to the music that inspired him to play the guitar in the first place with a new album of Beatles arrangements, this time with a full band sound, titled Across The Universe – The Beatles Vol 2. We caught up with him during an extensive European tour to find out more about his approach to arranging some of the world’s best-known melodies.

“Well, it’s interesting,” he says, of tackling the world’s most famous back catalogue. “These are songs that we all know and love, and I’m very passionate about The Beatles. After doing the first record and being overwhelmed by the response, I wanted to return to The Beatles’ back catalogue but this time do it with fuller production.

 

Also, in some cases where The Beatles had originally recorded two-minute versions of those songs, I wanted to be able to write some parts and develop those ideas, as I did on Strawberry Fields Forever and Norwegian Wood. Norwegian Wood was basically a two-minute piece exactly – it’s just melody/bridge/melody/bridge and it’s over – and it’s beautiful! You can play it anywhere and everyone knows it! Of course, in my world, there are no lyrics so I feel the need as an instrumentalist to bring more to the essence of the piece in terms of composition and that’s what you hear on this record.”

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