DAVINA McCall’s brain surgeon listened to ABBA as he carried out her complex five-hour operation The Sun on Sunday can reveal.
Neurosurgeon Kevin O’Neill, 62, says life-saving surgery gets so stressful that his hand could start shaking so he uses to calm himself.
When the top brain expert was asked if he listened to during star’s he said: “Oh, I was. I love ABBA in .
“Some people like silence to focus — sometimes you do need that — but it’s about balancing stress with performance.
“Stress can actually improve your performance to a certain extent, until it becomes excessive and then it paralyses you and it gives you the shakes.
“So you’ve got to have mechanisms to control that and one of them is to put some music on.”;;
He added that he’s such a fan of the Swedish superstars that he’s twice been to see their
, 57, discovered a when she was offered a free scan after giving a talk on the .
The TV host faced the risk of without surgery.
Following the procedure, she spent three days in intensive care and then five days recuperating at London’s Cleveland Clinic.
Speaking to Helen Fospero on the Convex Conversation podcast, Kevin admitted that he was nervous when Davina came round following the surgery.
He said: “She because she was away with the fairies.”;;
But the op proved successful, and a recent MRI scan confirmed the tumour is not coming back.
Kevin said: “I had a big smile on my face when I saw that scan.”;;
