'I was banged up pretty bad': Buffett

Margaritaville singer Jimmy Buffett returns to play in Australia after Sydney stage fall declaring 'I wasn't drunk'

SINGER-songwriter Jimmy Buffett has revealed he was lucky he didn't kill himself when he tumbled off the stage during a Sydney show.

The US veteran, best known for his hits Margaritaville and Cheeseburger in Paradise, landed badly, cut his head open and was taken to St Vincent's Hospital after falling while trying to shake the hand of a fan and missing the edge of the stage at the Hordern Pavilion show in 2011.
''I just walked off,'' he said.
''I wasn't drunk and whoever I was waving to wasn't that pretty. I was banged up pretty bad and I was very lucky.
''I think what saved me is that I had been surfing a lot the week before and I was in pretty fair shape so I rolled when I hit. If I had gone flat-faced, God knows what would have happened.''
Buffett paid tribute to the emergency ward surgeons who happened to be in the front row at the show and immediately came to his aid, one of whom rode in the ambulance with him.
''I don’t remember going off - I remember waking up when I was in the hands of two great emergency room surgeons. I was very grateful for that.

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