Punk Legend Jello Biafra Hospitalized After Stroke

San Francisco punk legend Jello Biafra has been hospitalized following a hemorrhagic stroke caused by high blood pressure, according to a statement posted on his Facebook page.

The former Dead Kennedys frontman described collapsing after getting out of bed and realizing he had lost feeling in his left leg and arm. “I tried to hop back up again, and I couldn’t. I realized I had ‘fallen and I can’t get up!’” he wrote. “It was this point I thought, ‘Oh shit, I’m having a stroke!’”

Biafra is in stable condition at a hospital, the statement said. “I still have a lot of great stuff in me, but right now I gotta lotta of rehabbing to do,” he concluded.

Fans left thousands of supportive comments on Biafra’s post, including well-wishes from fellow stroke survivors.

The 67-year-old singer-songwriter first came into prominence with the Dead Kennedys in the late 1970s with “California Über Alles,” a satirical song about then-governor Jerry Brown.

With other songs like “Nazi Punks Fuck Off,” the Dead Kennedys cemented their reputation as politically outspoken provocateurs. Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco in 1979 and, later, campaigned for the Green Party’s presidential nomination in 2000.

The Dead Kennedys reunited without Biafra in 2001 after accusing him of withholding royalties in a lawsuit.

Now a solo artist, Biafra remains active with his Alternative Tentacles record label and regularly posts political commentary on his social media.