{"id":313210,"date":"2025-12-13T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313210\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:10:08","slug":"brian-mays-wife-anita-dobson-sheds-light-on-queens-touring-future-after-guitarists-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/313210\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May\u2019s wife Anita Dobson sheds light on Queen’s touring future after guitarist\u2019s stroke"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anita Dobson has given an indication as to whether Queen<\/a> have a future on the road following her husband Brian May<\/a>\u2018s health issues.<\/p>\n

READ MORE:\u00a0\u2018Queen days\u2019: Brian May reflects on his rock \u2018n\u2019 roll journey<\/a><\/p>\n

Last September, May revealed he had suffered a \u00a0minor stroke<\/a>, saying it came on \u201call of a sudden, out of the blue\u201d and left him without any control over one of his arms. He said the incident was \u201ca little scary\u201d but praised the \u201cfantastic\u201d medical care he had received.<\/p>\n

More recently, on Alan Titchmarsh\u2019s\u00a0Love Your Weekend<\/a>, May said he\u2019d experienced a \u201cnumber\u201d of conditions in previous years. \u201cI\u2019ve been lucky, I get these things, but I seem to be able to get out of them. They give you a wake-up call,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In addition, in 2020 he was admitted to hospital after suffering a heart attack<\/a>\u00a0caused by an arterial disease.\u00a0He told fans that he was \u201cvery near death\u201d<\/a>\u00a0after doctors found he had three congested arteries.<\/p>\n

Now, Dobson has told The Mirror<\/a> that although Queen have worked on new music with Adam Lambert<\/a>, they may not resume full-scale touring. \u201cThey will do little bits and bobs, but they won\u2019t do those big tours,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Indeed, May and\u00a0drummer\u00a0Roger Taylor<\/a> recently spoke about the possibility of an ABBA Voyage<\/a>-style hologram show.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Touching on \u201creuniting\u201d with their former bandmates virtually in an interview with Big Issue<\/a>, May said: \u201cFreddie is still alive through the music that we listen to all the time. In a sense, John is still with us in the same way, but now we have so many other opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean things that are immersive, like The Sphere in Las Vegas, it will be possible to give people the experience very closely of what things were like for us when we were Freddie, John, Brian and Roger. And that really appeals to me,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

May went on to compare their recent live shows to what can be done via holograms: \u201cIn our Queen shows for a very long time I\u2019ve been doing \u2018Love of My Life\u2019. And in the end, Freddie comes in and joins me as on video. It was just quite simply done, but it\u2019s a way of involving Freddie, and I think we can basically take that a lot further.<\/p>\n

He said of a possible hologram-style show: \u201cIt wouldn\u2019t be just playing old footage or whatever. it would be creating Queen as if we were creating it today. I\u2019m very taken with the idea that we can be the original Queen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drummer Roger Taylor then revealed that while he \u201chad a good time\u201d and \u201cenjoyed\u201d the\u00a0ABBA Voyage\u00a0show \u2013 which debuted in 2022 \u2013 he left a showing with mixed feelings: \u201cI didn\u2019t find the actual projections that convincing. I do think technology now has come so much further since the ABBA show started, I think a lot more can be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, speculation emerged that a Queen hologram show was in the works after Mercury Songs Limited \u2013 the organisation which has ownership over late frontman Freddie Mercury\u2019s solo works \u2013\u00a0reportedly filed to trademark his moniker for virtual reality and 3D<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the band were named the UK\u2019s most-played rock act of the 21st century back in October<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anita Dobson has given an indication as to whether Queen have a future on the road following her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313211,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,3584,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-313210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-rock","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}