Brian May
Brian May
Brian Harold May, CBEis an English musician, singer, songwriter and astrophysicist, best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. He uses a home-built electric guitar, called the Red Special. His compositions for the band include "We Will Rock You", "Tie Your Mother Down", "I Want It All", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "The Prophet's Song", "Flash", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me", "Who Wants to Live Forever" and "The Show Must Go On"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth19 July 1947
CityLondon, England
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.
The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.
I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.
There's nothing I'm embarrassed about
I have to build my own boat this time. It's a big sea out there, and I have a pretty small boat. I have a lot of belief in it.
I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal
A good video can make all the difference
Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do
The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.
I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now Im spending years of my life trying to get away from it.
I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.
What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.