Queen's Brian May Hospitalized After Tearing His Butt 'To Shreds' In Garden Mishap!

You can’t keep a good guitarist down. But you can keep him from riding his bicycle for a while!

Rock icon Brian May, guitarist for legendary ’70s stadium rockers Queen, was hospitalized this week — but no, not for coronavirus infection. No, this 72-year-old injured himself like a real badass. Ooh, sorry, shouldn’t use that word right now…

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The songwriter-turned-astrophysicist took to Instagram on Wednesday to admit he ripped a butt muscle “to shreds” while doing a crazy little thing called gardening! Along with a sad photo in a hospital mask (above, inset), he wrote:

“Reality check ! For me. No – the Virus didn’t get me yet – thank God. Hope you’re all keeping extra-safe out there. A decision to relax controls doesn’t suddenly make the danger go away. But me ?? Yes, I’ve been quiet. Reason ? As well as getting over-stretched and harassed by too many demands … I managed to rip my Gluteus Maximus to shreds in a moment of over-enthusiastic gardening.”

Ouch! That is not the kind of shredding we want to hear about from Brian! Poor guy…

OK, so gardening isn’t exactly how one pictures a rock god, but we are talking about the PhD who helped NASA with their Pluto mission, so there’s nothing he can’t do. Except probably to walk for a bit… He continued:

“So suddenly I find myself in a hospital getting scanned to find out exactly how much I’ve actually damaged myself. Turns out I did a thorough job – this is a couple of days ago – and I won’t be able to walk for a while … or sleep, without a lot of assistance, because the pain is relentless.”

Oof, our fat bottomed girl butt hurts just reading about this! He finished:

“So, folks … I need to go dark for a while, getting some complete rest, at home. Please, please don’t send me sympathy – I just need some healing silence for a while. I’ll be back – but I need the complete break. OK ? Thanks. Take care out there. Bri”

He also shared a video of being rolled around the hospital. Aww, he must really want to break free now…

We wouldn’t worry too much about Brian bouncing back. He may have asked for radio silence, but later that very day he was back to radio gaga, sharing a couple of videos in which he shared some sweet electric guitar licks along with a mini-rant about British politics.

Get well soon, Brian!

[Image via WENN/Instar/Brian May/Instagram.]