Brian May Had a Death Experience After Being Rushed to Hospital Following a Heart Attack

Brian May revealed his death experience in a video posted on Instagram.

“I thought I was a very healthy guy,” he said. “But I turned out to have three arteries that were congested and in danger of blocking the supply of blood to my heart.”

“I walked out with a heart that’s very strong now,” he continued, “so I think I’m in good shape for some time to come.”

The 72-year-old man, an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, has been active since 1964 till present. He is the lead guitarist of the rock band, Queen, with other artists, Lead singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor.

Earlier this month, Brian May made headlines when he had torn a muscle in his gluteus maximus during a gardening accident, after which he had heart issues a few days.

Brian May said he was “shocked” to discover he needed surgery after what he thought to be a “small” heart attack earlier this month.

“I told you I had a ripped muscle,” he said in the video he posted on his Instagram page titled “Sheer Heart Attack” – a reference to the title of Queen’s third album, released in 1974.

“I didn’t realize that was amusing, really. I kind of forgot anything to do with the bum people find amusing… but anyway, it turned out to be not really the case.”

“Now a week later I’m still in agony,” Brian May said. “I mean real agony. I wanted to jump at some points. I could not believe the pain. And people were saying, ‘That’s not like a ripped muscle, you don’t get that amount of pain, so eventually, I had another MRI.”

“But this time I had one of the lower spines and, sure enough, what did we discover but I had a compressed sciatic nerve, quite severely compressed, and that’s why I had the feeling that someone was putting a screwdriver in my back the whole time. It was excruciating.”

“So finally we started treating the thing for what it was,” he continued. “I’d been putting the ice packs in the wrong place for about ten days.”
‘That’s one side of the story, and I’m a lot better now… But the rest of the story is a little more bizarre and a bit more shocking.”

“I thought I was a very healthy guy. Everyone says, ‘You’ve got a great blood pressure, you’ve got a great heart rate’. And I keep fit, I bike, good diet, not too much fat.”

“Anyway, I had – in the middle of the whole saga of the painful backside – I had a small heart attack.”

“It’s not something that did me any harm. It was about 40 minutes of pain in the chest and tightness, and that feeling in the arms and sweating,” he said.

Brian May’s doctor drove him to the hospital for tests and treatment after realizing he had a heart attack. He was given a choice between open heart surgery and having stents fitted, the guitarist chose to have stents fitted, and the operation remarkably went well.

Brian May added that his experience should be a lesson to people in their “autumn years”.

“What seems to be a very healthy heart may not be, and I would get it checked if I were you,” he said.

“I was actually very near death [but] I didn’t die. I came out, and I would have been full of beans if it hadn’t been for the leg,” he said.

Brian May released a new version of “We Are The Champions,” which was later renamed to “You Are The Champions,” as a tribute to medical staff and to raise money for the World Health Organization’s Covid-19 fund.