‘s legendary guitar player has revealed he often gets messages off his “saviour” friend Noel Fitzpatrick in the middle of the night after the supervet has performed surgery on an animal other vets had given up on.
He posted a selfie to his 3.4million followers in which he was holding Noel’s latest book Dogs And Their Humans declaring it is his current choice of night time reading in his comments.
“My favourite bedtime reading right now – from that magic man @profnoelfitzpatrick, saver of so many precious lives and dreams,” he began.
“Noel works the same kind of hours as me – and often messages me at 3am when he’s just emerging from a long day’s surgery on a dog or cat that the veterinary profession has given up on. And he proves once again that with sufficient dedication and skill almost anything is possible. His clients look upon their pets the same way as they look upon their children. And Noel is their saviour,” he continued.
“A more selfless man I have never met. He is now a very significant author, as you’ll find out in this lovely book. And watch out for his guitar playing in his new band FITZPATRICK!!! The Supervet Rocks!!” he teased.
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Brian May waxed lyrical about his friend Noel Fitzpatrick’s new book (Image: Brian May Instagram)
The admiration is mutual. In 2023 Noel told Chris Evans on his Virgin Radio breakfast show that it was thanks to Brian May he became a vet.
“I made a guitar out of a hay bale, with twines and a fertiliser sack, and a broom handle the neck,” he recalled. “I was 11 and I was plucking these twines on the fertiliser bag. I was supposed to be stacking hay. My dad comes around the corner. He goes, ‘What are you doing? And I’m like, ‘I’m playing a guitar’. He goes. ‘There’ll be no guitaring around here’. I said, ‘But… that fella with the big hair…’ I wanted to be Brian May.”
“…I became a vet in that moment. This is a true story. [My dad] went to the shed and he brought out a saw, and he said, ‘You’ll sharpen that and cut horns off the bullocks tomorrow’. And the following day, I was not playing guitar in Queen, I was sawing horns off a bullock as an 11-year-old child,” he recalled.
Many years later the pair became friends and Brian has even made an appearance at Noel’s Supervet shows. “I love Brian. We bond over animals and he’s the nicest man in the world,” Noel told Chris.
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Brian May says Noel Fitzpatrick often messages him at 3am (Image: Getty)
Having learned about his childhood ambition Brian even offered to teach Noel to play guitar suggesting he could use it in his Supervet shows.
At CarFest last year Noel told Virgin Radio’s Steve Denyer before he knew it, he found himself on stage, guitar in hand, learning to play in front of a live audience.
“So he (Brian) comes in my office and he says, ‘Right, what song are we gonna play?’ And I said, ‘Well, we’re gonna not gonna play anything, Brian, because you’re gonna be on tour in America and I’m gonna be in Folkstone. And he says, ‘No, no, we’re gonna play.
“And I say, “Okay, One Vision.’ So Brian puts me up on stage in front of my audience not knowing how to play guitar.
“I must be the only person that you’ve ever met that’s learned how to play guitar on a stage,” Noel laughed.