“He started to pick up an acoustic guitar… And it very quickly came back”: Brian May’s wife shares details of his guitar playing recovery after stroke
Brian May is feeling “much better” – and is even back to playing the piano and guitar – after his recent stroke.
May’s wife, actress Anita Dobson, reveals at the TRIC Christmas Lunch earlier this week that the musician’s condition has “stabilised” and that he has regained enough mobility to play the guitar again after the alarming incident left him unable to use his left arm.
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“He’s much better now, he’s stabilised now, which is brilliant,” says Dobson [via The Mirror]. “I just hope we don’t have any more reoccurrences. He’s got the use of that arm, which was a bit of a challenge, back now.”
“So, yeah, he’s good to go now. He’s playing the piano quite a lot in the house. He likes a lot of Beethoven. I love it — the piano in the house is really, just very relaxing.”
Dobson also says that the Queen guitarist “didn’t actually try until after he’d recovered quite a bit.”
“And then he very slowly started to pick up an acoustic guitar and gradually just exercise the muscles. And it very quickly came back. He’s just retraining the messages from your brain to that arm, that it’s actually okay to do what it used to do.”
“It was scary,” she adds. “And also being a genius for someone like that. His brain’s overloaded, that’s what it is. He’s too clever for his own good.”
In October, Brian May made a surprise appearance at the Red Special Guitar Meet-Up in Reading, UK. The event celebrated the 60th anniversary of the iconic guitar May built with his father as a teenager; it also marked the 77-year-old’s first public appearance since his “minor stroke”.
“Wasn’t too sure about going this time because I’ve been really low on energy – but so glad I did,” May later wrote on his website. “What you guys probably didn’t know was that was the first time I’ve touched that guitar for 2 months. It’s been a weird time.”
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