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Travis Barker went ahead with his Las Vegas residency show against doctor's orders on Saturday (02.01.16).
The Blink-182 drummer was so determined to play the concert at Hyde Bellagio and despite feeling dizzy, having a high temperature and being told not to continue, he soldiered on and vowed to perform, even if he got to the stage of having to "pass out, throw up or died".
In a statement on his Facebook he wrote: "Thanks to everybody that came to Hyde Bellagio this past Saturday for the show and sound check. I had a 104 temp and was severely nauseous and dizzy. The paramedics demanded I not play and go to the hospital asap. I said I'm playing till I either pass out, throw up or die .... (sic)"
The 40-year-old rocker thanked his fans, some who had travelled from as far as Australia and Mexico to be at the US show for their support, which gave him the strength to complete the entire set of his '#GiveTheDrummerSome' residency show.
He continued: "Met so many of you guys at sound check that came from Mexico, Australia, etc. and there was no way I was gonna let you guys down. I got thru my entire set and I appreciate all the love. @clemente_310 #GIVETHEDRUMMERSOME (sic)."

Stevie McCrorie is "nervous" about how people will react to his debut LP 'Big World'.
The 30-year-old singer - who won 'The Voice' in 2014 with the help of mentor Ricky Wilson - is feeling anxious as he's not released his own music before and wasn't able to express himself fully on the talent show.
Speaking exclusively about his forthcoming record, he told BANG Showbiz: "I am so glad to have it out. I am quite nervous to see how people are going to react to it.
"I really want to get across the real me because when you are on a TV show it's hard to put yourself across. It's a talent show and you are playing a game to win it. Now, this is an opportunity to show people who I really am."
The Scottish rocker - who has three-year-old daughter Bibi with his wife Amy - has his day job as a fireman on hold until March, but is determined to make a go of being a pop star so he doesn't have to go back to his fire-fighting job.
He added: "I want to have a career out of music, it's something I've wanted to do all my life and I don't want to go back to my day job as a fireman. So that is a pressure that I want to be a successful artist. I don't want to be go back but I've got a family to support so I guess we will just wait and see how the album does, but I am going to give a good bash at it and do what I can not to go back."
Stevie McCrorie's debut album 'Big World' will be released via Decca Records on Friday January 8.

The Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood has died at the age of 81.
The Australian music mogul's passing was confirmed on Facebook by Spencer Gibb, the son of late Bee Gees star Robin Gibb, in a touching post.
At the time of writing a cause of death was not known.
In his social media post, Spencer wrote a moving tribute to Stigwood who he knew as "Stiggy" and who steered his father's group to worldwide fame and success.
He wrote on his Facebook page: "My godfather, and the long-time manager of my family, Robert Stigwood, has passed away. A creative genius with a very quick and dry wit, Robert was the driving force behind The Bee Gees career ... I would like to thank Robert for his kindness to me over the years as well as his mentorship to my family. "Stiggy", you will be missed."
Stigwood worked in advertising in his native Australia before moving to the UK at the age of 21 to enter the music and film industry.
He made his name representing English singer John Leyton, securing him a role on the TV show 'Harpers West One', and he went on to record a song 'Johnny Remember Me' which spent four weeks at number one in 1961.
After a period on bankruptcy, in 1966 he became a booking agent for The Who before signing them to his own Reaction Records label, where they recorded the hit single 'Substitute'.
He then managed Cream and Eric Clapton, before signing the Bee Gees in 1967 and going on to forge a working relationship with three brothers, Barry, Robin and Maurice which lasted a lifetime.
In 1968, he began working in musical theatre and his company The Robert Stigwood Organisation (RSO) oversaw the productions 'Hair'
'Oh! Calcutta!', 'Sweeney Todd' and eventually the last of the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber musicals 'Evita'.
Lord Lloyd Webber has taken to his Twitter account to pay tribute to his late friend, writing: "Farewell beloved Robert, the great showman who taught me so much. With love, ALW. (sic)"
Elaine Paige - who starred the original run of 'Evita' - also took to Twitter to remember Stigwood, writing: "Upsetting news: passing of legend Robert Stigwood (who,amongst so much,produced theatre prods incl #Evita) ... RIP (sic)"
Stigwood also turned his attention to movies and acted as the producer on 'Grease' and 'Saturday Night Fever' - for which the Bee Gees provided the acclaimed soundtrack.
He was responsible for casting fellow Australian Olivia Newton John in the role of Sandy in 1978 hit movie 'Grease', which also starred John Travolta in the part of Danny Zuko.

Motörhead's 'Ace of Spades' is rocketing to number one on the UK singles chart as a tribute to late frontman Lemmy Kilmister.
The rockers' 1980 song is on a course to knock Justin Bieber's 'Love Yourself' off of the top spot, as fans have been downloading and streaming the track in their droves following the sudden passing of Lemmy, who died aged 70 on December 28 after a short battle with an "extremely aggressive cancer".
Lemmy was informed on December 26 that he had the disease and following the news of his death just two days later, the track surged 94 places into the ninth spot midweek in the singles charts, according to the Official Charts Company.
'Ace of Spades' was first released in 1980 and reached the number 15 spot on the chart in Britain upon its release.
It then re-entered the singles chart 22 years ago after Motörhead performed the song on an episode of UK sitcom 'The Young Ones' entitled 'Bambi' in May 1984.
'Sorry' hitmaker Justin is currently dominating the top five spots in the singles chart, with three of his songs featuring in positions number one, two and four respectively, while Adele's 'Hello' is in third position and Australian singer Grace is in fifth place with 'You Don't Own Me'.

Selena Gomez had been "aching" to make a "sexy" song like 'Good For You'.
The singer-and-actress made her name starring in Disney show 'Wizards of Waverly Place' and she was thrilled to get the chance to record her coming-of-age album 'Revival' - which featured her naked on the front cover and coincided with her moving out of her childhood home and hiring a new manager to replace her mother Mandy Cornett.
When Selena, 23, found her future smash hit 'Good For You' she knew it would be the song to showcase her seductive side and new-found confidence as a grown woman.
The track - which features ASAP Rocky - contains lyrics such as "I'm a Marquise diamond / Could even make that Tiffany jealous, mmm / You say I give it to you hard, so bad, so bad / Make you never wanna leave, I won't, I won't" and the video saw Selena writhing around in just a wet white T-shirt and sliding around on the floor in ripped jeans.
Speaking about the song, Selena said: "When I heard that song, I freaked out. I felt confident and comfortable in who I am. I felt sexy. I was aching to do stuff like that."
Although she started her career as an actress and wants to continue making movies, Selena has always been "obsessed" with music.
'The Big Short' star told Rolling Stone magazine: "It's complicated to make an artist out of thin air, and I think the first album was a little bit like that. Not to say that I wasn't passionate about music. My dad was a DJ, my mom was obsessed with every type of music possible, and I was on 'Barney' for two seasons, singing with a purple dinosaur."

Boy George says "every other person in make-up" got a record deal before he did.
The 'Karma Chameleon' hitmaker enjoyed huge success with his new-wave-pop outfit Culture Club in the '80s, but revealed they struggled to get noticed among other singers who wore eyeliner and had an androgynous style.
Speaking to BANG Showbiz, he said: "When I started my band I could not get signed. Every other person in make-up got a record deal. I could not get signed, it was like 'what's wrong with me?'. And then it happened by accident, it was like one happy accident after another and I had a career... But there's no rules about any of these things anymore, you've just got to fight for it."
The 54-year-old star - real name George Alan O'Dowd - thinks pop-music is now as unpredictable as a "headless chicken" and he is glad to be a coach on BBC talent show 'The Voice', because it gives artists a platform to showcase their talent.
He mused: "On Youtube there's records that I've never heard of but have got like, 60 million hits. We live in a different age now. That old relationship that people had with artists and music, it just doesn't exist. So what is a star, what's a hit, what's a chart, you know? For me, pop music at the moment is like a headless chicken.
"What 'The Voice' does is it gives people an opportunity to be on telly, with millions of people watching you, and then what you do with it... you know that saying? 'It's your attitude not your aptitude that governs your altitude.'

Guns N' Roses have been confirmed to headline Coachella Festival.
The band members' involvement in the musical event had been rumoured for several months, but was officially announced on Tuesday (05.01.16).
Alongside a host of emojis, Axl Rose took to Twitter after the announcement, writing: "Ok,ok... It's "confirmed!" Guns N' Roses is Headlining Coachella 2016!! See Everyone There!!"
The line-up for the band has yet to be revealed, but it is rumoured that the band will reunite its original members - Axl, Slash and bassist Duff McKagan.
It has also been reported that the band are planning a tour, but guitarist Richard Fortus previously revealed the band's future was "up in the air".
He said: "The current state of Guns N' Roses is pretty up in the air. The last I heard they wanted to finish up the recordings that we have and put them out next year and start touring. But it has been a while since I've heard from anybody in that camp as far as management or Axl. So I really don't know."
Coachella will therefore mark the first time the band have performed together in two decades.
Other names among the line-up for 2016 festival include DJ Calvin Harris, who will headline the closing night.
Organisers are sure to be hoping Calvin's famous girlfriend Taylor Swift will be supporting her beau at the event - drawing more attention to the festival.
Headlining the opening night will be LCD Soundsystem, which will see the first time the band have performed since retiring in 2011.

Late Motörhead frontman Lemmy will be remembered at a tribute night by his The Rainbow Bar and Grill in Hollywood.
The 'Ace of Spades' hitmaker - who passed away aged 70 last month after a short battle with an "extremely aggressive cancer" - will be remembered on January 9 with a special 12-hour memorial at the West Hollywood drinking den on the Sunset Strip which he considered his spiritual home.
The Los Angeles bar's owner Mikael Maglieri, comforted the late rocker by installing his favourite video game from the bar into his home so he could play it in his finals hours.
Maglieri announced the event on The Rainbow Bar and Grill's Facebook page - along with an image of Lemmy playing the game.
The post read: "Join us as we say goodbye to a dear friend and loved one. We will open our doors at 2pm. Come celebrate the life of Lemmy Kilmister. Legends never die."
Since it was revealed Lemmy had died on December 28 The Rainbow Bar and Grill has become a makeshift shrine to the rocker with fans leaving tributes and memorials outside the venue.

Boy George was planning to move to America so Britain would "scream" for him to come back.
Just before he was offered a judging role on 'The Voice', the 54-year-old Culture Club singer was going to move to the US in order to put his past troubles behind him including a 2005 conviction for falsely reporting a burglary in Manhattan which earned him a community service order.
George - who made the burglary call to police while high on cocaine - wanted to make America his permanent home because he felt the country was willing to give him a clean slate as opposed to his home country.
He said: "I kind of felt like, I'm going to America, they are going to fall in love with me and then my country is going to scream for me to come back.
"When I went back to New York for the first time [after his community service], I fully expected every television programme to show footage of me sweeping up the city. They just didn't do it and I thought, 'That's amazing.' I was really shocked. It was like, 'You did this. It's over. You did your community service. We don't want to talk about it any more.' That's why I love America."
George - who served four months of a 15-month jail sentence in 2009 for the assault and false imprisonment of a man - eventually got clean of drugs and made a vow to rebuild his music career and reputation, and he is proud he has achieved his goals.
He told The Times newspaper: "We're getting there over here. I've always been insanely optimistic. But I do remember saying to myself, 'You have to make this right. You have to rebuild this, brick by brick. Everything. Myself. My career. My life.' It was, 'OK, I'm in charge now and I need to kind of really get this together.'
"There is no margin of error. There is just no way. My mother would be, 'Arrrrggh!' She would disown me. Well, she probably wouldn't because she loves me, but there is just no way ... no way. I'm out of chances."