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
Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
Sometimes if the guitar is the last thing to go on, it's very fresh.
There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.
Mantovani was a great influence on me.
When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.
You want to go in the steam bath to get your vocals sounding well, but you don't want your fingers to get soft.
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.
What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
Doing Made In Heaven was like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, but I wouldn't have put my seal of approval on it if I hadn't thought it was up to standard.
I think Hammer's very cool: he has a great voice and great presence.
...I think the popular view of Science is a solid body of truth, shared by a whole lot of learned men in a room, all agreeing on the answers to the questions of how the Universe works. Whereas nothing could be further from the truth!!! The one truth that I see emerging from the History of Science is that experiment has always surprised theorists. Einstein included!
There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.
On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.