The Kinks’ Dave Davies sends message of support to Malcolm Young

The Kinks‘ Dave Davies has issued messages of advice and support to AC/DC‘s Malcolm Young, who is rumoured to have experienced a stroke. “Never give up,” wrote Davies, who suffered his own stroke in 2004. “Part of the healing process is convincing the brain and MIND that it is capable of anything.”

Though AC/DC have announced that Young is sick, they have not confirmed a blog report claiming their 61-year-old guitarist suffered a stroke earlier this year. “Malcolm … is taking a break from the band due to ill health,” AC/DC said in a statement. “In light of this news, AC/DC asks that Malcolm and his family’s privacy be respected during this time.”

Davies has no further information: “I have no idea exactly what physical state Malcolm Young is in,” he admitted. But in two Facebook posts, the Kinks co-founder offered his best advice for recovering from a major physiological setback. “Always exercise your hands and fingers,” he suggested, “picking coins from the floor, picking up pins from a flat surface, constantly [touching] the tips of your fingers with the thumbs and [trying] to do it faster and faster.”

“[Imagine] playing your best solos ever in your mind before you go to sleep – daily,” Davies went on. “Remember all the important ‘tricks’ you learnt and keep going over and over them in your mind … Positive thoughts and encouraging support of others are paramount in the healing process.”

Davies suffered his stroke on 30 June 2004, when he was 57. “I’d just finished a bunch of interviews and I started to feel a bit woozy,” he told Rolling Stone last year. “I got outside and just collapsed on the pavement.” Despite temporary paralysis on the right side of his body, Davies gradually recovered full mobility. He released solo albums in 2007 and 2013 and finally returned to the live stage last spring. “I was afraid my first shows last year might have been my last but sometimes you have to have blind faith,” he wrote this week. “It really does not help by people taking a negative view that [Malcolm’s] career is over.”

Source: The Guardian