Daily Mail<\/a> in an interview: “America is a dangerous place at the moment, so you have to take that into account.<\/p>\n“It’s very sad because I feel like QUEEN grew up in America and we love it, but it’s not what it was,” the QUEEN guitarist added. “Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment.”<\/p>\n
May did not specify what he considers unsafe about the U.S. that would prevent QUEEN from touring there again.<\/p>\n
As for when May and Taylor \u2014 who have been touring with “American Idol” alum Lambert since 2012 under the stage name QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT \u2014 might return to playing live shows, May said: ‘I don’t know when QUEEN will be back on stage \u2014 it’s an unknown. We’ll take it day by day.”<\/p>\n
May also hinted at possible new QUEEN music, telling the Daily Mail: “It was time to take a break and spend time with family, take stock. But never say never about not coming back, the rebuild of QUEEN Two is coming back, and there are a couple of things you haven’t heard.”<\/p>\n
May’s wife, actress and singer Anita Dobson, said QUEEN would no longer embark on large-scale tours due to health issues and the fact that the members of the band were “getting old.”<\/p>\n
Dobson’s comments came after Taylor told Rolling Stone magazine that he, May and Lambert had no plans to stage a final farewell tour.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think we’re done,” he said. “And I don’t think we’re going to say a final farewell tour. Because it never is, is it?”<\/p>\n
When pressed if QUEEN will be “resting forever,” he replied: “At one point we will be.”<\/p>\n
In 2024 Brian revealed that he suffered a minor stroke. Although the episode initially left the now-79-year-old rock legend unable to use his left arm, he has since regained enough movement to be able to play music again.<\/p>\n
May’s stroke came four years after he had a “small” heart attack. At the time, he said was shocked to realize he wasn’t as healthy as he thought, and he was “very near death”. He discovered three arteries were “congested and in danger of blocking the supply of blood to my heart”, and subsequently had surgery to fit three stents \u2014 tiny tubes to hold open blocked arteries.<\/p>\n
Six years ago, May had to be hospitalized after he tore his buttocks “to shreds” while gardening. As a result, he developed severe sciatica and suffered what he later described as a “small heart attack” from the medication. May then had a bad reaction to his heart attack medication and nearly died. More recently, Brian underwent cataract eye surgery.<\/p>\n
He later said that he believed that coronavirus may have played a role in his heart attack because of the way the virus thickened the blood. As a result, he said he was living a “ridiculously careful” life with Dobson \u2014 whom he credited with saving his life.<\/p>\n
“She was incredible,” he told the Daily Express back in 2020. “I couldn’t do anything and she just kind of nursed me, so I will forever be in her debt; she did an incredible job on me.”<\/p>\n