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Queen guitarist Brian May had a minor stroke final week that left him unable to regulate his left arm or play guitar, he stated on Wednesday in a video posted on his Instagram feed and web site.
He defined that he had suffered a “well being hiccup,” since identified as a “minor stroke,” and went “blue lights flashing” to the hospital when he couldn’t use his arm final week, however he reassured followers that he had since recovered sufficient to play his guitar.
Though Might is most well-known as a founding member of Queen and for writing a few of the legendary rock band’s largest hits, together with “We Will Rock You” and “Who Desires to Dwell Perpetually,” he has additionally loved a profession as an astrophysicist and animal rights activist.
“Excellent news is that I can play guitar after the occasions of the previous couple of days,” he stated, including that it “was a little bit scary” however that he “had essentially the most incredible care and a focus from Frimley Hospital.”
He stated he was “okay” and “simply doing what I’m informed, which is principally nothing,” itemizing the issues he can’t do in the meanwhile like drive, get on a airplane or elevate his coronary heart charge too excessive.
As he spoke, a airplane flew overhead and he joked that “I’m not allowed to have planes flying over, which is able to stress me.”
Later within the video, Might also spoke about his lately launched documentary detailing his decade-long marketing campaign to cease Britain’s controversial badger cull.
The musician has suffered from a series of health issues in recent years.
In Might 2020, he had a coronary heart assault, after which he had three stents – brief, wire-mesh tubes that act like a scaffold to assist hold an artery open – put in to alleviate the hazard of blood provide being blocked from the guts.
Afterward, Might informed the tv present “Good Morning Britain” that he practically died when he suffered a variety of issues, together with a abdomen hemorrhage on account of the treatment he was taking for his coronary heart.
In March final yr, he was knighted by King Charles III for his providers to music and charity.