Rock star Meat Loaf is on the mend and will appear in Brighton despite being forced to cancel several gigs due to ill-health.

The heavyweight singer was expected to perform at the Brighton Centre earlier this week but postponed after he collapsed on stage at a concert London's Wembley Arena.

The 52-year-old, real name Marvin Lee Aday, was diagnosed with a potentially fatal heart condition.

Doctors discovered he had Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, a condition which causes an irregular heart beat.

Meat Loaf told a news conference on Friday he was lucky to be alive and praised the NHS for the caring treatment he received.

He said: "In a sense I guess I cheated death because of the condition I had. The last two weeks have been fairly scary and unlike anything I've gone through before."

Meat Loaf revealed he had been unwell through the summer but was determined to perform in the UK despite dizziness and fainting spells during gigs in Europe and America.

Recalling his Wembley collapse on November 17, he said: "I was performing a song called All Revved Up and I couldn't sing the lyrics. I got to the middle of the stage where the girls were and I remember grabbing hold of a girl's arm and starting to fall."

The postponed concert at the Brighton Centre has been rescheduled for January 27.