Sir Brian May’s wife shares update on his health 7 months after ‘scary’ stroke-Danni Scott-Entertainment – Metro

Sir Brian May is healing well after his stroke (Photo by Kym Illman/Getty Images)

Anita Dobson has confirmed her husband and Queen legend Sir Brian May is recovering well after a shocking health turn earlier this year.

The 77-year-old music icon suffered a stroke in May and was rushed to hospital but Anita has reassured fans he is ‘much better now’.

Sir Brian was left unable to use his arm at the time and doctors banned him from travelling in an attempt to keep his heart rate down.

His guitar-playing ability quickly returned and now his famous wife Anita has revealed he has been back at the piano too.

‘He’s much better now, he’s stabilised now, which is brilliant,’ the Eastenders legend shared at the TRIC Christmas Lunch, as reported by The Mirror.

Anita, 75, continued: ‘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.’

Anita Dobson confirmed he’s got the use of his arm ‘back now’ (Picture: Victoria Jones – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

He has swapped guitar for piano around the house (Picture: Miikka Skaffari/Getty Images)

At the time, he called the stroke a ‘little scary’ but said the whole experience was ‘very exciting’ thanks to the emergency blue lights.

Sir Brian is now ‘good to go’ once more and has been playing piano ‘quite a lot’ in their home, treating his family to the soothing sounds of Beethoven.

‘I love it – the piano in the house is really, just very relaxing,’ she added, revealing her husband didn’t try to play an instrument for a long time during his recovery.

Anita shared: ‘He didn’t actually try [to play an instrument] 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.’

He and Roger Taylor previously teased new music from Queen (Picture: Richard E. Aaron/Redferns)

Teasing, she added he’s ‘too clever for his own good’ and his brain is simply ‘overloaded’.

Sir Brian is best known for co-founding Queen with Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor but the star also has a PhD in astrophysics and was heavily involved in the RSPCA for years.

Despite his health, the We Will Rock You hitmaker has been at a few low-key events recently, including for Queen’s anniversary.

In October, he joined Roger, 75, at the launch event for the rebuild of their debut album, Queen I, which is now 50 years old.

Sir Brian is able to play guitar once more (Picture: James Gourley/REX/Shutterstock)

In good spirits, he and his bandmate joked that originally Mercury sounded like a ‘manic goat’ but ‘learned quickly’ to become their ‘beautiful Fred’.

Queen is not ready to put down their instruments yet though as the remaining duo have discussed possible new music.

When asked if fans will ever hear new Queen music again, the Radio Ga Ga drummer said: ‘Well, I think you might! Brian and myself were talking the other day, and we both said that if we feel we have some good material, why not?

‘We can still play. We can still sing. So I don’t see why not.’

The band have still been touring with Adam Lambert taking the lead, and released a lost song featuring Mercury in 2022, which had been first recorded 34 years ago.

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