One of Brian May's most iconic guitar performances almost didn't make it on to one of Queen's most popular tracks.
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.
Freddie Mercury was never going to exit the stage without one last flourish, none more so evident in the story behind his farewell song, 'The Show Must Go On'.
Since Mercury's passing, May has performed Love of My Life solo (with the help of old footage of the vocalist) with a ...
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 ...
Rossi said of Freddie Mercury: “As everyone was decamping out of Live Aid, Freddie bent me over a desk, in a half-nelson, held me down and I couldn’t move. Fuck, he was strong!” But there was one star ...
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Sir Brian May says Freddie Mercury is ‘always with him’ but one Queen song in particular always makes him think of his late friend. The rocker — who is now ‘stable’ after recently suffering a stroke — ...