Brian May finds himself in an enviable position. A true Renaissance man, while he might be more known for his recent ecological efforts and PhD in astrophysics, he’s also a pioneer of art rock and the guitar hero in Queen, showing just how far his immense cerebral reach stretches. A man of many talents, his […]
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By 1978, Queen were back to cutting whatever records they wanted. They’d hit a slight creative wobble the previous year. Just as The Rolling Stones and The Who toughened their sound for Some Girls and Who Are You at the time, punk’s insurrectionary flashbang pulled the rug from Queen’s unchallenged rock royalty, posing a pang […]
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There are hardly any other rock stars who have been as diplomatic as Brian May. As much as Queen may have gone in a thousand different directions, May was always willing to try out anything that came into his bandmates’ heads, even if he wasn’t 100% sold on what they were working with. But even […]
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When breaking America, a lot of artists will want to start as they mean to go on. Except, if the first time Queen went Stateside was anything to go by, they would have always been destined to fail. Picture the scene: the year was 1974, and although the success of Queen and Queen II was […]
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Punk might have established itself as the abrasive to commercial, mainstream rock back in the 1970s, but the divide between those two very disparate musical worlds wasn’t always quite as binary as the likes of Johnny Rotten might have you believe. Particularly during its early days, when the scene was void of any musical talent […]
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There’s practically nothing that Kurt Cobain and Axl Rose ever saw eye-to-eye on. Both of them certainly loved the rock and roll music that they played every single time they performed live, but each of them was coming from a completely different angle whenever they put their emotions down on record. Cobain was the one […]
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It can be easy for someone like Brian May to get a little bit jaded with the idea of being a rock star. Queen might be one of the most seminal rock and roll bands of all time, but there are probably a few times when May doesn’t feel like he’s up for talking about […]
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It’s not hard to imagine a small, conservative, Midwestern American town where rock ‘n’ roll is illegal, a la the movie Footloose, but how about a big city in the north of England imposing an ordinance to limit how loud a rock band could be? In 1973! It might sound like a corny script idea […]
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Who knows where inspiration comes from? It’s a mystery that people have been trying to figure out since the dawn of time. The act of ideas hitting from nowhere is an amazing phenomenon. Within a split second, a lightning strike of genius hits an artist, and the rest is history. Freddie Mercury knew that feeling […]
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Brian May has responded to President Donald Trump’s use of a Queen song in a social media post, which unveiled his new “MAGA Symphony” painting. Trump revealed the painting this week; it depicts the politician conducting an orchestra of pro-Trump figures, such as Charlie Kirk and Elon Musk. Trump celebrated Jon McNaughton’s painting on TruthSocial, […]
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