Brian May has opened up about the iconic guitar solo from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, admitting that he still struggles to ...
Since Mercury's passing, May has performed Love of My Life solo (with the help of old footage of the vocalist) with a ...
Brian May has recalled how one of his most famous guitar solos almost didn't happen as Freddie Mercury was insisting the track was a "piano song". The famous riff on Don't Stop Me Now is nearly ...
Because of his deep-rooted love for his self-made Red Special guitar, it’s taken Brian May half a century of noise-making to ...
But when Queen recorded Don’t Stop Me Now for their 1978 album Jazz, May found himself sidelined by singer Freddie Mercury, who wrote the song and had very definite ideas about how it should sound.
In 1995, four years after the death of Queen singer Freddie Mercury ... tracks recorded in the last months of Mercury’s life, and as guitarist Brian May said: “I think it’s quite possibly ...
Brian May & Queen Did Not Know Freddie Mercury’s Plan In an interview with The Guardian, Brian May rehashed Queen’s infamous performance and disclosed all the details embedded within it.
Although the band were told the song had no hope of getting airplay, Capital Radio DJ Kenny Everett, who was a friend of Freddie's stepped in and played it 14 times in one weekend. This started the ...
The youngster's project shares many similarities with May’s Red Special, while it bears the distinctive shape of Randy Rhoads ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Freddie Mercury with Roger Taylor and Brian May at the Brit Awards in 1990. It was Freddie's ...
Because of his deep-rooted love for his self-made Red Special guitar, it’s taken Brian May half a century of noise-making to get his first official signature guitar. His Gibson SJ-200 12-string ...