Latest about Brian May
"Looking back, he basically invented rock guitar!": Brian May lavishes praise on Townshend
As Townshend enters his 80th year a fellow guitar legend pays tribute
Brian May pushed himself to the limit for his Jean-Michel Jarre live collaboration, and it paid off big time
The guitar hero admitted self-doubt in rehearsals, but he proved again why he's a progressive master in Slokavia
Brian May pays tribute to the late Duane Eddy, remembering the night his hero played the Red Special
The King of Twang was one of May's idols as a young player and the pair finally met backstage in 2017. May describes Eddy's playing as “revolutionary”
“Brian May did an entire section, about a dozen guitar harmonies:” Mark Knopfler’s all-star Guitar Heroes charity single, Going Home, is released – but who played what?
Featuring over 50 A-list guitarists, the expanded Local Hero theme opens with Jeff Beck's final solo, has Joan Armatrading rocking on electric and May going harmony mad to raise money for teen cancer charities
Brian May has officially teamed up with Gibson – but what will their collaboration involve?
No, the Queen guitarist is surely not going to start playing Les Pauls but a signature acoustic might not be beyond the realms of the imagination, nor would a Gibson-built Red Special
"I have no idea what I'm going to play when I get to that solo" – Brian May reveals the classic Queen song he improvises most live… and the track he takes the opposite approach with
"Every time the solo comes up live, I think, well, actually I can’t do much better than that"
“I never liked it, to be honest, the way it was mixed. But I do recognise that it works”: Brian May says Under Pressure sounded like The Who before David Bowie took out the heavy guitar parts
Brian May said he was “beaming” about the guitar on the early versions of Under Pressure. David Bowie was not
"I don't think it ever really goes away" – Brian May admits he still suffers with imposter syndrome
The Queen legend is candid on Rosie Bennet's new podcast
Brian May’s guitar tech Pete Malandrone reveals that the Queen guitarist has added a mastering EQ to his 2023 live rig to cut out “spurious, horrible RF noise”
In a new rig tour video, Malandrone reveals that he has opened up a new front in war against RF noise with the deployment of the Bettermaker mastering EQ unit
