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Rod is paying the medical bills of old friend and blues legend Long John Baldry as he fights for his life.
He kept a bedside vigil last month at a clinic in London for the man who discovered him. Surrey-born John, 64, then flew back to Canada where he lives and is now desperately ill in Vancouver General Hospital with breathing problems.
Relatives from Britain have flown out to be with him.

A hospital spokesman said yesterday: "He has been in the hospital since the end of March when he was admitted with respiratory-related problems. He is in intensive care where his condition is stable."

John spotted Rod's talent in the 1960s when he heard him singing to himself at midnight at Twickenham station in South West London and he offered Rod the chance to join his band The Hoochie Coochie Men.
John later described how Rod was a shy performer "apart from when he was tracking down tarts, he wasn't so shy then".

John went on to have a No 1 hit single with Let the Heartaches Begin. He also gave Sir Elton John his first break in music when he used the then humble piano player's backing band Bluesology. And guitarist Eric Clapton said John's love of blues inspired his own career.