Al Di Meola remembers what he was thinking as he lay in a Romanian hospital after suffering a heart attack on stage in 2023. “My hands were bracing the side of the table,” he says. “Like, ‘Oh boy, is this gonna fucking hurt!’”
Luckily, it didn’t. Luckier still, he fully recovered and got back on the road soon afterwards, releasing his latest album, Twentyfour, a year later. “We don’t harp on the fact that what I went through was excruciating,” he explains.
