The show must go on.
Queen guitarist Brian May has shared a welcome health update following the stroke he suffered last year.
“I’ve been lucky, I get these things, but I seem to be able to get out of them. They give you a wake-up call,” May, 77, said during a new interview with Alan Titchmarsh on ITV’s “Love Your Weekend.”
“I keep moving, I do my biking a lot of times a week,” the “Bohemian Rhapsody” guitarist continued. “I do a hundred lengths in the pool once a week. To me, that’s what’s keeping me going. That’s what’s keeping me alive.”
The rockstar added that his doctors told him he is “doing all the right things” when it comes to taking care of his health.
“So, for now, I’m still here,” he concluded.
May suffered the startling health scare in August 2024. He revealed the shocking news on Instagram one month later.
“They called it a minor stroke, and all of a sudden, out of the blue, I didn’t have any control of this arm,” he shared in a video at the time. “It was a little scary, I have to say.”
“I didn’t wanna say anything at the time because I didn’t want anything surrounding it, I really don’t want sympathy,” May continued. “Please don’t do that, because it’ll clutter up my inbox, and I hate that. The good news is I’m okay.”
However, the “We Are the Champions” musician returned to the stage less than one year after suffering his minor stroke and temporarily losing control of his left arm.
He performed “Bohemian Rhapsody” with Benson Boone at Coachella in April 2025.
“I’m still reeling from last night at Coachella,” May wrote on Instagram hours after his surprise festival appearance. “Thanks to all of you folks who made it feel so special — you know who you are!”
“And for Benson and his entire team, I have no words,” he added. “I’m awestruck.”
May reunited with the “Beautiful Things” singer once again for another performance in London earlier this month.
“Just catching my breath … but I have to pay tribute to Benson Boone and all his beautiful team. I had a BLAST,” he added in another video following Boone’s show at the O2 Arena on Nov. 4. “Love you guys.”
But the Queen member’s stroke wouldn’t be the first health scare he endured in recent years.
May suffered a heart attack and “could have died” back in 2020, although he quickly recovered from that incident as well.
“Anyway, I didn’t die, I came out,” the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer said on social media in May 2020. “I’m incredibly grateful that I now have a life to lead again. … I’m good, I’m here, and I’m ready to rock.”
May, meanwhile, is joined by former bandmates Roger Taylor, 76, and John Deacon, 74, as the only surviving original members of Queen.
Frontman Freddie Mercury died from AIDS-related bronchial pneumonia in November 1991. He was 45.
