One of Brian May's most iconic guitar performances almost didn't make it on to one of Queen's most popular tracks.
Since Mercury's passing, May has performed Love of My Life solo (with the help of old footage of the vocalist) with a ...
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 ...
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.
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Guitar Player on MSNBrian May’s new signature Gibson JS-200 features a subtle tribute to Freddie MercuryBecause of his deep-rooted love for his self-made Red Special guitar, it’s taken Brian May half a century of noise-making to ...
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“In my head I was there with Freddie in those moments”: How Brian May completed Freddie Mercury’s final song for QueenIn 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 ...
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The Mirror US on MSNQueen fans think they know surprising reason band 'stopped trying in America'Queen, the legendary band known for hits like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' and 'I Want to Break Free', enjoyed immense success ...
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Guitar Player on MSNA British teenager has channeled his hero Brian May by building a guitar from scrap woodThe youngster's project shares many similarities with May’s Red Special, while it bears the distinctive shape of Randy Rhoads ...
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PopCrush on MSNQueen’s Brian May Scared It’s ‘Too Late’ to Stop AI From Destroying the Music IndustryThe Cure, an English rock band that toggled from post-punk to goth to alt-rock to some iteration of all three, produced an ...
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 ...
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