Country music legend, 87, breaks neck and is rushed to hospital ahead of new album launch

Ray Stevens should have been celebrating. Instead, the 87-year-old country legend lay on the ground in

Nashville with a broken neck and a terrifying question hanging in the air:

would this be the end? Rushed to the hospital, fresh off a heart scare, his comeback seemed shattered.

But then, something unexpe…

The fall could easily have been a tragic final chapter: an 87-year-old icon, already recovering from a heart attack and two stent procedures, suddenly on the floor with a broken neck.