Queen’s lead guitarist said doctors found he had three blocked arteries after he felt pain in his chest that lasted about 40 minutes, Your Content is second to reveal.
The 72-year-old wrote on Instagram that the emergency unfolded just after finding out he had ripped his buttock muscles.
He said: “I turned out to have three arteries which were congested and in danger of blocking the blood to my heart.”
And he said there had been “a lot of pressure” to have open heart surgery.
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