Queen guitarist Brian May suffers minor…
However, the 77-year-old rock legend said he’s now OK and has regained enough movement to be able to play music again. “The good news is that I can play guitar after the events of the last few days,” he said in a video posted on his website on Wednesday. “I say this because it was in some doubt because that little health hiccup that I mentioned happened about a week ago, and what they called it was a minor stroke.
He praised doctors at Frimley Hospital in Surrey, “where I went, blue lights flashing, the lot – very exciting”. “So, the good news is I’m OK. I’m just doing what I’m told, which is basically nothing.” He said he had been “grounded”, adding: “I’m not allowed to go out – well, I’m not allowed to drive, not allowed to get on a plane, not allowed to raise the heart rate too high.” Sir Brian filmed the video outdoors, and as a plane could be heard overhead, he joked: “I’m not allowed to have planes flying over, which will stress me. But I’m good.” The star added that he didn’t say anything publicly at the time because “I really don’t want sympathy”.
The revelation comes almost two weeks after the broadcast of a BBC One documentary fronted by Sir Brian about his campaign to protect badgers from being culled. In his new video, he also discussed the programme, saying it had received some “great reactions from farmers particularly – also from wildlife people of course”. Badger culling is used as a way to prevent the spread of tuberculosis in cattle. The musician added: “We’ve been attacked very strongly from some quarters, and you have to look very carefully, because the people who are shouting the most of course are the people who feel most threatened.”
