Scots pop singer Edwyn Collins is to quit performing live after a farewell tour later this year.
The 65-year-old said he decided to halt touring due to his age, but would continue to record new material.
He suffered a stroke and two haemorrhages in 2005 but resumed his music career after recovering.
The Edinburgh-born singer, told BBC Scotland News he had decided the run of dates in September and October would be his last because ‘I’d be a very old man by the time the next one [tour] rolled around, and that’s not for me’.
He said he would miss ‘the audience love, my beautiful band and crew’.
Best known for 1995 hit single A Girl Like You, he first gained attention in the 1980s with indie-pop band Orange Juice, before going solo.
Edwyn Collins is to quit performing live after a farewell tour later this year
Mr Collins suffered a stroke and two haemorrhages in 2005 but resumed his music career after recovering
Edwyn Collins, then a member of the band Orange Juice, in 1983
He was left unable to walk, talk or read after the stroke and haemorrhages and spent several months in hospital after a surgical scar became infected with the MRSA bug.
But he recovered enough to release a further five albums, including the forthcoming Nation Shall Speak Unto Nation – his 10th overall release.
In 1995 solo track A Girl Like You became a worldwide hit, topping the charts in Belgium and Iceland and cracking the top 40 in America.
His farewell tour will begin at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow on 29 September, before going to Buxton, Bath, Southampton, Brighton, London, Norwich and Manchester, before ending at the Boiler Shop in Newcastle on 8 October.
