MATT MONRO TRANSPLANT ABANDONED

CAMBRIDGE, England —  British popular singer Matt Monro was described as “poorly but comfortable” in a hospital Tuesday after a liver transplant for cancer had to be abandoned, his former manager Don Black said.

Gentle-voiced ballad singer Monro, 54, whose hit records in the 1960s included “Portrait of My Love” and “Born Free,” will be treated with drugs instead, Black told reporters.

“I am told that they started the transplant operation and then discovered that the growth was not just in the liver,” he said.

Monro, born Terry Parsons in London, is married and has two sons, aged 28 and 20, and a daughter, 25. His wife, Mickie, was at his bedside in the hospital in Cambridge, 50 miles north of London.