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"UPDATE: McCartney has been forced to cancel next week&amp;apos;s show in South Korea due to his illness. &amp;quot;I was really looking forward to visiting and playing in South Korea for the first time and I&amp;apos;m sorry to be letting fans down,&amp;quot; McCartney said in a statement.\r\nPaul McCartney&amp;#xA0;has canceled the rest of his Japanese tour &amp;#x2014; including a show at the famed Nippon Budokan, where the Beatles played in 1966 &amp;#x2014; due to poor health, MTV reports. The former Beatle is under doctor&amp;apos;s orders for &amp;quot;complete rest&amp;quot; in order to ward off a suspected virus.\r\nFind Out Where Paul McCartney&amp;apos;s &amp;apos;New&amp;apos; Ranks on Our List of the 50 Best Albums of 2013\r\nIn a statement, organizer Kyodo Tokyo said McCartney &amp;quot;will regrettably have to cancel the remaining Japanese shows. Paul is still not feeling better and this cancellation is unavoidable&amp;quot;.\r\nThe virus already forced McCartney to postpone a handful of shows, and in a previously released statement, the musician said he was &amp;quot;really looking forward to playing Japan again.&amp;quot; He continued,&amp;#xA0;&amp;quot;Unfortunately my condition has not improved overnight. I was really hoping that I&amp;apos;d be feeling better today. I&amp;apos;m so disappointed and sorry to be letting my fans down.&amp;quot;\r\nMcCartney&amp;apos;s illness comes on the heels of a trek through South America in support of his 2013 album New. He&amp;apos;s expected to return to the stage on May 28th for a show in Seoul, South Korea, and will then bring his Out There tour back to the United States for a string of dates this summer, starting June 14th in Lubbock, Texas.\r\nIn lighter McCartney news, the former Beatle recently offered fans a whimsical video for his song &amp;quot;Appreciate&amp;quot; last week. In the clip, McCartney busts a move through &amp;quot;The Museum of Man&amp;quot; alongside an android security guard named Newman, whom the musician says he came up with in a dream."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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