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Judas Priest’s Richie Faulkner ‘Struggles’ to Play Sometimes Because of Brain Damage

Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner said he suffered a stroke in 2022 and was left with permanent damage to his brain that's affected his playing.

In an interview with PremierGuitar, the guitarist revealed that he suffered a stroke that left him with permanent damage to his brain, which has affected how he plays his instrument. The musician, who previously suffered an acute cardiac aortic dissection during a 2021 show, explained that in 2022, he noticed that “something was different” about how he used his right hand to play guitar and brush his teeth. He decided to see a doctor and quickly learned he had damage to his brain after experiencing a stroke, not a Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) as he had previously believed.

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