"I was in an ambulance and I heard a man yell, ‘Sir you’ve had a stroke.' I didn’t know what it meant," he wrote.

Earlier this year, the great power-pop veteran Matthew Sweet suffered a debilitating stroke while on tour in Toronto. Sweet had to be flown back to the US in an ambulance transport plane and brought to a rehab center,

Matthew Sweet, a 90s rock n’ roll lend and a singer/songwriter whose musical talents have been best expressed not only through passion for the guitar — but through his inherent sense of humor — suffered a debilitating stroke while on tour in Toronto, Canada in October.