Latest about Brian May
Brian May on how The Night Comes Down was born of depression – and the desire to prove people wrong
With a radically-modded cheapo classical guitar, a head clouded by darkness, May wrote a great Queen epic and tore up the production rulebook that said you can’t mix electric and acoustic
Brian May and Roger Taylor on Freddie Mercury using the studio to become rock's greatest frontman
The making of Queen’s debut album was a learning process for all, none more so than Mercury who used the studio as a tool for radical self-improvement and take full command of his instrument
“It still buzzes”: Brian May reveals the mods he made to his £10 acoustic for Queen’s debut album
Recently reissued and “rebuilt”, Queen’s 1973 debut was a time of learning and experimentation for the band, with May customising a cheapo acoustic for one of the coolest tones on the record
Queen hated the drum sound on their debut so much that they “augmented” every beat for its reissue
Their eponymous debut is a stone-cold rock classic but Queen have never been happy with its sound, especially Taylor’s drums. For its “rebuilt” and renamed reissue, they forensically applied digital tech to transform the sound of each individual drum hit
“My guitar hero has always been Brian May”: The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts salutes Queen
She loves a guitar solo you can sing along to
“As far as guitar playing goes, go to the old school": The wisdom of Dimebag in Total Guitar's final issue
The famous guitar mag closes after 30 noisy years
Brian May heads up a new stereo mix 'rebuild' of Queen's debut album
"It is the debut album we always dreamed of bringing to you"
"Out of the blue, I didn't have any control over this arm": Brian May reveals he's suffered a stroke that left him unable to use his left arm
Queen reveals 'health hiccup' on his website
