Talk about a pain in the …
Let’s just say that Queen guitarist Brian May hasn’t just been lounging about during his time sequestered during the coronavirus pandemic. Nope, he’s been active. Almost too active, he says.
He recently landed himself in the hospital after a gardening accident.
May shared the news Thursday in an Instagram post.
“I managed to rip my Gluteus Maximus to shreds in a moment of over-enthusiastic gardening,” he wrote.
He said his trip to the hospital was to get “scanned to find out exactly how much I’ve actually damaged myself. Turns out I did a thorough job. … I won’t be able to walk for a while … or sleep, without a lot of assistance, because the pain is relentless.”
Ouch.
Because May, who is quite active on social media, had not posted anything for a while, some fans might have wondered if he had contracted covid-19. Nope — just the posterior issue.
May said he hopes everyone is keeping extra-safe, but doesn’t expect any pity.
“Please, please don’t send me sympathy — I just need some healing silence for a while,” he said. “I’ll be back — but I need the complete break.”
Just last week, May and drummer Roger Taylor and singer Adam Lambert posted a new version of “We Are the Champions” to salute frontline health workers battling the coronavirus.
Dubbed “You Are the Champions,” the video has been viewed more than 3.2 million times and has raised more than $4.7 million for the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the World Health Organization.
Queen with Lambert were set to begin the European leg of their latest tour when the pandemic hit.
