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 like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky.
I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody
On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.
Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.
I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?
Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
I'm the nice guy who sits there signing everything that's put in front of me.
I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.