Guitar Player on MSN19d
Brian May’s new signature Gibson JS-200 features a subtle tribute to Freddie Mercury
Because of his deep-rooted love for his self-made Red Special guitar, it’s taken Brian May half a century of noise-making to ...
Guitar Player on MSN12d
A British teenager has channeled his hero Brian May by building a guitar from scrap wood
The youngster's project shares many similarities with May’s Red Special, while it bears the distinctive shape of Randy Rhoads ...
“I played lots of guitar on it, and Freddie said, ‘No, no, no!’”: How Brian May fought to be heard on a Queen classic
But when Queen recorded Don’t Stop Me Now for their 1978 album Jazz, May found himself sidelined by singer Freddie Mercury, who wrote the song and had very definite ideas about how it should sound.