Queen legend Brian May has revealed what he would like his legacy to be as he opened up about mortality. The 77-year-old revealed he no longer works on Queen projects for the money, having sold the band's catalogue, but instead so that he can ensure he has done his "best on anything that I ever touched". "We recently sold our wares to Sony, of course, so we’re clearly not doing this for the money. When I pop off from this planet, I would like to know that I’ve done my best on anything that I ever touched," he told Mojo magazine in April this year.

The guitar icon, who is married to Doctor Who star Anita Dobson, 76, announced he had suffered a minor stroke last year, posting a video message to his social media to reassure fans he was doing well. In February this year he said he estimates he has regained 95 per cent of his abilities and said that “is enough".

He also revealed the full extent of his condition, indicating it was far more serious than he had first revealed.

Confessing it had taken "sheer willpower" to recover he said, “I couldn’t get a fork from the table to my mouth without it all going all over the place. It was scary.”

Fortunately his recovery was quick, adding: “After only a few days, it’s amazing what you can get back."

"By sheer willpower, you just start retraining your muscle,” he said in a chat with Premier Guitar magazine.

This is the most insight he has given into what he described at the time as a "health hiccup".

He took to Instagram on September 4 last year, just days after being hospitalised, to reveal the news but didn't fully indicate how serious it was.

In a video shared to the platform, he said: "I’m here to bring you first of all some news, I think. The good news is that I can play guitar after the events of the last few days.

“I say this because it was in some doubt because that little health hiccup happened about a week ago. What they called it was a ‘minor stroke’. All of a sudden, out of the blue, I didn’t have any control over this arm, so it was a little scary."