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Queen’s Brian May reveals he suffered a heart attack

LAS VEGAS, NV – SEPTEMBER 20: Brian May of Queen performs onstage during the iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on September 20, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Getty Images for Clear Channel)

Queen guitarist Brian May revealed that he recently suffered a heart attack and opted to have three stents placed in his arteries rather than undergo bypass surgery. May has kept fans abreast of his recent injury in which he ripped his buttocks “to shreds” during a freak gardening accident.

He again took to social media to explain that while his medical team was trying to ascertain why he was in such non-stop pain, they discovered a compressed sciatic nerve during an MRI of his spine. May explained “(It was) quite severely compressed and that’s why I had this feeling that someone was putting a screwdriver in my back.”

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