Queen’s Brian May Recalls ‘Near Death’ Experience After Suffering Heart Attack
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PICTURED ABOVE: Brian May of Queen attends the press conference ahead of the Rhapsody Tour at Conrad Hotel on Jan. 16, 2020 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
“Brian May is ‘incredibly grateful’ to be alive after suffering a recent heart attack.
In a video posted to Instagram on Sunday (May 24), the 72-year-old Queen guitarist detailed the ‘saga’ of events leading up to the heart attack, including a recent gardening accident that injured his buttock muscle.
May says he was experiencing excruciating pain following the gardening incident, which he initially blamed on shredding his gluteus maximus. But an MRI of his lower spine revealed that May actually had a compressed sciatic nerve.
But the story doesn’t end there. During the process of treating his pain and torn muscle, the musician discovered that he had a ‘small heart attack.'”
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