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Friday 14 December 5:12 p.m.
By Megan Slovak
PSY has suffered another blow to his popular appeal
after a 46-year-old fan died while dancing to his international smash hit
GANGNAM STYLE.
Irishman
Eamonn Kilbride, a father of three, suffered a heart attack at a Christmas
party in Burnley, England last Saturday and died
while showing off his galloping Psy moves.
The tragedy
was especially hard on his wife Julie, who was celebrating her birthday at the
bash.
Acute heart
failure has been listed as the official cause of death.
The news
breaks a week after Psy was forced to apologise to U.S.
fans following the discovery of footage featuring the rapper making
anti-American remarks at a rally in his native South Korea a decade ago.
Video of Psy
at anti-U.S. events in 2002 and 2004 were unearthed online and he issued a
statement explaining his participation in the rally was "part of a deeply
emotional reaction to the war in Iraq and the killing of two innocent Korean
civilians that was part of the overall antiwar sentiment shared by others
around the world at that time".
He added, "While I'm grateful for the
freedom to express one's self I've learned there are limits to what language is
appropriate and I'm deeply sorry for how these lyrics could be interpreted. I
will forever be sorry for any pain I have caused anyone by those words."