Brian Harold May (born July 19, 1947) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, astrophysicist and photographer. He is best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. He uses a homemade electric guitar called Red Specials. His compositions for the band include "We Will Rock You", "Tie Your Mother Down", "I Want It All", "Fat Girl," "Flash", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me", "Who Wants to Live Forever ", and" The Show Must Go On ".
May is a Queen co-founder with vocalist Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor, who previously performed with Taylor in Smile band, which he attended while at university. Within five years of their formation in 1970 and the recruitment of bassist John Deacon completing the lineup, Queen has become one of the biggest rock bands in the world with the success of A Night at the Opera album and his single "Bohemian Rhapsody ". From the mid-1970s to early 1990s, the Queen was almost always present on the UK charts and played some of the greatest places in the world, especially giving performances that were acknowledged at Live Aid in 1985. As a Queen member, Mei is considered a virtuoso musician and she identified by a distinctive sound created through the work of its multilayered guitar.
After the death of Mercury in 1991, Queen had a hiatus for several years but was eventually restored by May and Taylor for a further show featuring another vocalist. In 2005, Planet Rock poll saw May as the 7th greatest guitarist of all time. He ranked 26th on Rolling Stone magazine's "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" magazine. In 2012, May was ranked 2 of the greatest guitarists of all time by the poll of the magazine's readers of Guitar World.
May was appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the United Kingdom (CBE) in 2005 for "services for the music industry and for charity work". May was awarded a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London in 2007 and Liverpool Chancellor John Moores University from 2008 to 2013. He is a "collaborator of the science team" with NASA's New Horizons Pluto mission. He is also one of the founders of Awareness Campaign, Asteroid Day. Asteroid 52665 Brianmay is named after him. May is also an animal rights activist, campaigning against fox hunting and culling badgowns in Britain.
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Brian Harold May was born in Hampton, Middlesex on July 19, 1947, the only child of Ruth and Harold May, who worked as a draftsman at the Ministry of Aviation. His mother was Scottish, while his father was English. Can attend the local Hampton Grammar School, then a volunteer school. During this time, he formed his first band, named 1984 after the George Orwell novel of the same name, with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell.
At Hampton Grammar School, he achieves ten GCE General Levels and three Advanced GCE Levels in Physics, Mathematics, and Applied Mathematics. He studied Mathematics and Physics at Imperial College London, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Physics in 1968 with honors. In 2007, May was awarded a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London for work started in 1971 and completed in 2007.
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Musical career
1968-1970: Smiling
May formed Smile band in 1968. The group included Team Staffell as vocalist and bassist, and later, drummer Roger Taylor, who also continued playing for Queen. The band only lasted for two years, 1968-1970, as Staffell departed in 1970, leaving the band with a catalog of nine songs. The smile will reunite for a few songs on December 22, 1992. The band Taylor The Cross is headliners, and he brings May and Staffell to play "Earth" and "If I Were a Carpenter". May also brought some other songs that night.
1970-present: Queen
In the vocal harmony of the three parts of the Queen, May is generally the lower background vocalist. In some of his songs, he sang the main vocals, especially the first poem "Who Wants to Live Forever", the last verse of "Mother Love", centered on "I Want It All" and "Flash's Theme", and the main vocal on "Some Day One Day "," He Made Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettoes) "," '39 "," Good Company "," Long Away "," All Dead, All Dead "," Sleeping on the Sidewalk "," Leaving House Not Easy "and" Sailing Away Sweet Sister ".
Throughout her career, May often writes songs for the band and has made many songs around the world such as "We Will Rock You", "Tie Your Mother Down", "I Want All", "Fat Girls,", "Who Want Live Forever "and" The Show Must Go On "as well as write significant hit songs" Hammer to Fall "," Flash "," Now I'm Here "," Brighton Rock "," The Prophet's Song "," Las Palabras de Amor "," No-One But You "and" Save Me ". Usually, Mercury or May write the most songs on every Queen album.
After a famous Live Aid concert in 1985, Mercury called up his band members and proposed to write a song together. The result is "One Vision", which is basically May on music (The Magic Years documentary shows how he came up with the opening parts and basic guitar riffs) and the lyrics were written together by all four band members.
For their 1989 release album, The Miracle , the band has decided that all songs will be credited to the entire band, no matter who is the lead author. However, interviews and musical analysis tend to help identify the input of each member in each song. May composed "I Want It All" for the album, as well as "Scandal" (based on his personal issues with the British press). For the rest of the album he does not contribute much creatively, though he helps in establishing the base of "Party" and "Was It All Worth It" (both dominated by Mercury) and creating a "Chinese Torture" guitar riff.
The next album of the Queen is Innuendo , where contributions may increase, although more in the setting than the actual writing in many cases; for the title song he did some arrangements for a heavy solo, then he added vocal harmonies to "I'm Going Slightly Mad" and composed a solo "This Are the Days of Our Lives", a song for the fourth of them deciding the shared keyboard part. He changed the tempo and key song Mercury "The Hitman" and took it under his wing, even singing vocal guides in the demo. May also write some guitar lines in "Bijou".
Two songs made by May for his first solo album, "Headlong" and "I Can not Live With You", finally ended up on the Queen project. His other compositions are "The Show Must Go On", a group effort where he became the main coordinator and composer, but where they all have input, Deacon and Taylor with the famous chord sequence. In recent years, he has been overseeing remastering Queen albums and various DVDs and the biggest hits releases. In 2004, he announced that he and drummer Roger Taylor will tour for the first time in 18 years as "Queen", along with Free/Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers. Billed as "Queen Paul Rodgers", the band played throughout 2005 and 2006 in South Africa, Europe, Aruba, Japan and North America and released a new album with Paul Rodgers in 2008, titled The Cosmos Rocks . The album is supported by a great tour. Paul Rodgers then left the band in May 2009 and it was not until 2011 that another vocalist, Adam Lambert, was recruited. They then continue their European tour of 2012, world tours during 2014 and 2015 and, most recently, the 2016 Tour Festival. They also play the Big Ben New Year concert on New Year's Eve 2014 and New Year 2015.
1983-1998: Side project and solo work
During 1983, several Queen members explored a side project. On April 21 and 22 in Los Angeles, May was in the studio with Eddie Van Halen, without any intention of recording anything; the result of those days is a mini album titled 'Star Fleet Project', which will not originally be released.
Can contribute to former album guitarist Steve Hackett, Feedback 86 , playing guitar on the track "Cassandra" and providing guitar and vocals for "Slot Machine," co-written by May. Although produced in 1986, the album was not released as a commercial release until 2000. May worked with his second wife Anita Dobson on his first album, where he sang vocals to the EastEnders theme song. In this form, the song became the song "Anyone Can Fall in Love". May produce the song, which reached No. 4 in the UK Singles Chart in August 1986. In 1989, May contributed a guitar solo for the song "When Death Calls" on 14th album Black Sabbath Headless Cross, and the Living in a Box "Blow The House Down "from Gatecrashing album.
In the aftermath of November 1991's death Freddie Mercury, May chose to handle his grief by committing himself to the utmost to work, first by completing his solo album, Back to the Light, and then touring around the world for promote it. He often said in a press interview that this was the only form of self-prescribed therapy he could think of. According to Def Leppard lead singer Joe Elliott, "It is undoubtedly a big and terrible blow to lose someone so close to him.I personally, I know it's tearing at Brian's heart, but after saying that, he's really excited after the album's over."
In late 1992, Brian May Band was officially formed. The previous version of the band was loosely formed for October 19, 1991, the band's last concert reunion date, when May took part in the Guitar Legends guitar festival in Seville, Spain. Line-ups for his performance were May on vocals and guitar, Cozy Powell on drums and percussion, Mike Moran and Rick Wakeman on keyboards, and Maggie Ryder, Miriam Stockley and Chris Thompson on backing vocals. The original arrangement was May on lead vocals and guitar, Powell on drums and percussion, Michael Casswell on guitar, Neil Murray on bass, and Ryder, Stockley and Thompson on backing vocals. The band's version only lasts during South American support tour (supporting The B-52's and Joe Cocker) only on five dates.
After that, May made a significant change, feeling his group never really gel. May bring guitarist Jamie Moses on board to replace Mike Caswell. Other changes made were in the background vocal department, when Ryder, Stockley and Thompson were replaced by Catherine Porter and Shelley Preston. On February 23, 1993, the new lineup of The Brian May Band began its world tour in the US, both supporting Guns N 'Roses and making some dates. The tour will take them through North America, Europe (support act: Valentine) and Japan. After the tour ended on December 18, 1993, May returned to the studio with surviving Queen band members Roger Taylor and John Deacon to work on the song Made in Heaven, the last studio album Queen. The band took the demo of Mercury's solo album and the last recording, which he managed to do in the studio after the album Innuendo finished, and completed it with their addition in both music and vocals. Working on the album after the death of Mercury originally started in 1992 by Deacon and May, but was left to date later, due to other commitments.
In 1995, May began working towards a tentative tentative new album called Heroes, in addition to working on various film and television projects and other collaborations. May then change the approach of the blanket to focus on collaboration and on new material. The songs include Another World , and feature mainly Spike Edney, Cozy Powell, Neil Murray, and Jamie Moses. On April 5, 1998, Cozy Powell was killed in a car accident on the M4 motorway near Bristol, England. This caused a major and unexpected disruption to the upcoming tour for The Brian May Band, with a new drummer needed in no time. Steve Ferrone was brought in to help Mei complete the recording drum and join the band for an early stage promotional tour of five dates in Europe before touring the world. After the initial promotional tour, Eric Singer succeeded Steve Ferrone for the 1998 world tour.
The 1998 tour saw a brief introduction of the 'support act' known as T. E. Conway. Conway (Brian May in a wig and a colorful suit that plays the role of a teddy boy singer) will play a number of 1950s rock and roll standards before May's 'arrival'. A T. E. Conway EP bonus titled Retro Rock Special was attached to some pressure from the album Another World . Conway character was retired at the end of the tour.
2000-present
From his last solo release in 1998, May has appeared as a solo artist, as part of an ensemble, and rarely as a Queen with Roger Taylor. On October 22, 2000, Brian May made a guest appearance at the 25th Anniversary of Motörhead at Brixton Academy along with Eddie Clarke (former guitarist MotÃÆ'¶rhead) for the encore song "Overkill". As part of the celebration of Jubilee Elizabeth II in June 2002, May played the "God Save the Queen" guitar solo from the roof of Buckingham Palace, with a show featured on the 30th Anniversary DVD edition of A Night at Opera . In 2004 May played the guitar on "Someone to Die For" on the Spider-Man 2 soundtrack. In the Queen's birthday list of 2005, she was made Commander of the Most Superior Order of the United Kingdom "for service to the music industry and for charity work". In the same year he played guitar in the song Il mare... from Italian singer Zucchero Fornaciari, on his album Zu & amp; Co. , and he took part in a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London held in May 2004, with other guests of the Italian bluesman.
May was a celebrity guest at the Genesis reunion concert at Twickenham Stadium in 2007. May and Genesis frontman Phil Collins had worked together on two previous occasions, at The Prince's Trust Rock Gala in 1988 and Party at the Palace in 2002, when Collins had drumming with the Queen. In 2011 he contributed to the feature about Collins for FHM , praising him for being "a great guy and a great drummer".
May worked extensively with stage actress and singer Kerry Ellis, after her role in the musical We Will Rock You . She produced and arranged her debut studio album Anthems (2010), a follow-up to her extended game Wicked in Rock (2008), as well as appearing with Ellis in many public performances - playing guitar beside him. He also contributed a guitar solo for the album Hang Meat Loaf Hang Cool, Teddy Bear instead of the use of drummer John Miceli. Together with Elena Vidal, Brian May released a history book in 2009 titled A Village Lost and Found: Scene in Our Village . This book is an annotated stereoscopic photo collection taken by Victorian-era photographer T. R. Williams and sold with a focused stereoscope. Might be a craze for stereoscopic photographs as a child, and first discovered Williams's work during the late 1960s. In 2003, May announced a search to identify the exact location of the Scenes in Our Village images. In 2004 May reported that he had identified the location as the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire.
On May 20, 2009, May and Queen bandmate Roger Taylor performed "We Are the Champions" live in the season finale of American Idol with winner Kris Allen and runner-up Adam Lambert giving the vocal duet. In November 2009, Mei appeared with Taylor on The X Factor , with Queen guiding the contestants, then performing "Bohemian Rhapsody". In April 2010, May set up a 2010 "Save Me" project to work against the lifting of UK fox hunting ban, and also to promote animal rights in the UK. In February 2011, it was announced that May will tour alongside Kerry Ellis, playing 12 dates in the UK in May 2011.
On April 18, 2011, Lady Gaga confirmed that May will play the guitar on "You and I" from her newest album Born This Way, released on May 23, 2011. In June 2011, May performed with Tangerine Dream in The Starmus Festival in Tenerife, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's first spaceflight.
On August 26, May performed "We Will Rock You" and "Welcome to the Black Parade" with American rock band My Chemical Romance at the Reading Festival. On August 28th, May performed "You and I" live with Lady Gaga at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards at the Nokia Theater, Los Angeles. On October 10, May made an appearance to celebrate the reunion of the British rock band, The Darkness, on an intimate 100 Club show with support from Dark Stares. As an old group fan, May performed three songs on stage with The Darkness, including Queen's "Tie Your Mother Down", at Hammersmith Apollo on their next comeback tour.
At the MTV Europe Music Awards 2011 on November 6, the Queen received the Global Icons Award, which Katy Perry presented to Brian May. The Queen closed the award ceremony, with Adam Lambert on vocals, performing "The Show Must Go On", "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions". The collaboration gained a positive response from fans and critics, who generated speculation about future projects together. Queen Adam Lambert played two shows at Hammersmith Apollo, London on 11 and 12 July 2012. Both shows were sold out in 24 hours of tickets to be sold open. A third London date was added for July 14th. On June 30, Queen Lambert performs in Kiev, Ukraine at a joint concert with Elton John for the Antinna Pinchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation. The queen also performed with Lambert on July 3, 2012 at the Moscow Olympic Stadium, and on July 7, 2012 at the Municipal Stadium in Wroclaw, Poland.
In January 2012, May performed on the solo stage of N-Dubz solo Dappy "Rockstar", providing "rowdy guitar riffs that culminate in a thrilling solo". The couple also collaborated on the appearance of "We Will Rock You" for BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge.
On August 12, 2012, Queen appeared at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. May performed part of the "Brighton Rock" solo before joining Taylor and solo artist Jessie J for "We Will Rock You". On September 16, 2012, May appeared at the Sunflower Jam charity concert at the Royal Albert Hall, performing with bassist John Paul Jones (from Led Zeppelin), drummer Ian Paice (Deep Purple), and vocalist Bruce Dickinson (from Iron Maiden) and Alice Cooper.
May contributed his guitar talent to the end of the credit song of the movie, A Dog Named Gucci , in the song "One Voice", which also featured Norah Jones talent, Aimee Mann, Susanna Hoffs, Lydia Without love, Neko Case, and Kathryn Calder. It was produced by Dean Falcone, who also wrote film scores. "One Voice" was released on Record Store Day, April 16, 2016, with the profit from single sales going to benefit animal charities.
2004-2009: Queen Paul Rodgers
In late 2004, May and Taylor announced that they would reunite and return to the tour in 2005, with Paul Rodgers (founder and former vocalist of Free and Bad Company). Brian May's website also states that Rodgers will be "featured with" Queen as Queen Paul Rodgers, not replacing the late Freddie Mercury. The retired John Deacon will not participate.
Between 2005 and 2006, Queen and Paul Rodgers embarked on a world tour, the first leg being Europe and the second, Japan and the United States in 2006. On May 25, 2006, Queen received her first VH1 Rock Award at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas , Nevada, and May and Taylor joined on stage with Foo Fighters to perform the Queen's song selection. On August 15, 2006, Mei was confirmed through his website and fan club that Queen Paul Rodgers would begin producing their first studio album starting in October, to be recorded in a "secret location". The album, titled The Cosmos Rocks , was released in Europe on September 12, 2008 and in the United States on October 28, 2008. After the band's album began the tour through Europe and part of the US. , opening on Kharkiv freedom square in front of 350,000 Ukrainian fans. Events in Ukraine were later released in DVD. Queen and Paul Rodgers officially split on May 12, 2009. Rodgers did not rule out the possibility to work together again.
2011-present: Queen Adam Lambert
Shortly after appearing with American Idol finalist Kris Allen and Adam Lambert during the program's end of the season in 2009, May and Taylor began to reflect on the future of the Queen after the group's peaceful split with frontman Paul Rodgers. Two years later, at the 2011 MTV Europe Music Awards, Queen presented the Global Icon Award that year, which was received in May. As part of the broadcast, the Queen did a brief set with Lambert, receiving a very friendly response. Speculation about the collaboration with Lambert immediately emerged, with three officially announced a short European summer tour in 2012, including three dates at Apollo Hammersmith in London, as well as shows in Ukraine, Russia and Poland. Like a partnership with Paul Rodgers, John Deacon did not participate.
This collaboration was revived in 2013, when the three performed together at iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Hotel & amp; Casino in Las Vegas on September 20th. Five months later, in May, Taylor and Lambert announced a 19-day summer tour in North America on Good Morning America. Due to a ticket request, five dates are immediately added. In May 2014, shows in Australia and New Zealand were announced, along with festival performances in South Korea and Japan. The tour was extended to Great Britain and Europe by early 2015. The group performed together in South America in September 2015, including the first show of the Queen at the Rock in Rio Festival since 1985.
In 2016, the group started all of Europe and Asia on the 1992 Adam Lambert Summer Tour 2016. This included closing the Isle of Wight Festival in the UK on June 12 where they performed "Who Wants to Live Forever" in tribute to mass casualty casualties at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida the day before. On September 12 they performed at Park Hayarkon in Tel-Aviv, Israel for the first time in front of 58,000 people. Although the collaboration remains active, there are currently no plans to record a studio album, even though all three are willing to do so in the future.
Musician
Influences
May has been referred to as a virtuoso guitarist by many publications and musicians. He has appeared in various musical polls from great rock guitarists, and in 2011 was ranked 26th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Former vocalist Van Halen Sammy Hagar stated, "I thought the Queen was really innovative and made some great sound recordings.. I like rockin things." I think Brian May has one of the great guitar tones on the planet, and I really, like his guitar work. "May mainly uses" Red Specials ", which he designed when he was only 16 years old. Built with wood from the 18th century fireplace. His comments on guitar:
I love the big neck - thick, flat and wide. I tidied the fingerboard with Rustin Plastic Coating. Tremolo is interesting because his arm is made of an old bicycle saddle carrier, a button at the end of a knitting needle and the spring is a valve spring from an old motorcycle.
In addition to using his guitar, he prefers to use coins (especially six cents from a collection of farewell evidence in 1970), rather than the more traditional plastic plectrum, on the basis of their rigidity giving him greater control in play. He is known to carry coins in his pocket specifically for this purpose.
The early influences of May were Cliff Richard and The Shadows, whom he said were "the most metal thing (s) out at the time." Years later he had the opportunity to play on separate occasions with both Cliff Richard and Shadows leading guitarist Hank Marvin. He has collaborated with Cliff Richard on the re-recording of Cliff Richard and The Shadows (later known as The Drifters) 1958 hit "Move It" on Cliff Richard's duet album Two Company that was released on November 6, 2006.
May always states that The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, The Who and Jimi Hendrix are the biggest influences on him. On June 2, 2010, on BBC Radio 2, Brian May said, "I'm going to put Rory Gallagher in there, he's one of the most inspiring of me." In Queen for a Hour 1989 Interview on BBC Radio 1, May lists Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton as guitar heroes. In a 1991 interview for Guitar World magazine, May referred to the Who as "my inspiration," and when he saw Led Zeppelin proclaim, "We used to look at the people and think," So it must be done. "May told the guitarist in 2004:" I do not think anyone has symbolized the writing riff better than Jimmy Page - he's one of the great brains of rock music. "It may also be influenced by Steve Hackett, the band's guitarist progressive rock Genesis, in particular the guitar solo solo in the late 1971 song "The Musical Box".
While May and his father were building a Special Red, May also produced a plan to build a second guitar. However, once successful is Special Red, that May does not need to build another guitar. The plan was eventually awarded to luthier guitar Andrew Guyton around 2004/05, some minor modifications were made and guitars were built. It was named "The Spade", as a shape resembling the shape shown on the playing cards. Yet the guitar also came to be known as "The Guitar That Time Forgot".
Tools
Guitar and keyboard
Most of the electric guitar works may be live and in the studio performed on Red Specials, which he built with his father, an electronic engineer, during his teenage years. From 1975 onwards, it also has several replicas made, some of which are also used for live and recording purposes, others are mainly spare parts. The most famous replica made by John Birch in 1975 (May actually destroyed it during a concert in America in 1982), Greco BM90 (featured in promo video "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" in 1977), Guild (back) -up of 1984 to 1993), Fryers (1997-1998, using live and in studio) and Guyton (back-up from 2003 to the present). Onstage, May is used to carry at least one back-up guitar (if she solves a string) and will occasionally use another for a particular song or part, such as an alternate barrel. Currently, May has a company that makes guitars whose designs are modeled after the original Red Special guitar.
- July 1973 - May 1974: Fender Stratocaster CBS era (considered 1972)
- October 1974 - May 1975: Gibson Les Paul Deluxe, and Stratocaster from previous tour.
- November 1975 - May 1976: The same two guitars as before, plus the natural finishing of John Birch the Red Special replica.
- September 1976: The same three as before, plus acoustic Martin D-18 for "'39".
- January 1977 - August 1979: Just a Birch replica plus an Ovation Pacemaker 12-string acoustic on some numbers ("'39", "Love of My Life", "Dreamer's Ball").
- November 1979 - June 1982: Birch replica (back-up), Fender Telecaster ("Small Things Called Crazy", verse 2, middle-eight and solo), Ovation (acoustic number).
- July - November 1982: Adds Gibson Flying V as the second backup. On August 9, 1982 Brian destroyed Birch's guitar, so FlyingÃ,V became the only backup.
- August - October 1984: The Flying V becomes second reserve again because its main backup is a replica of Geng. He also uses Roger Taylor's Gibson Chet-Atkins Classical Electric.
- July 1985 - August 1986: Gibson Flying V is no longer in use. The rest remains the same.
- In 2012 he received a double-neck replica of the Red Special with a second neck having a 12-string. He used this guitar in several performances with Adam Lambert now able to play the 12-string part of the studio version of Under Pressure directly.
He currently has a 12-string Guild to replace his Ovem Pacemaker. Some of the non-RS electric guitars he uses in the studio include:
- Burns Double Six on "Long Away" (1976) and "Under Pressure" (1981).
- Fender Telecaster on "Crazy Little Things Called Love" (1979). It is used for video (but not recording) from "Back Chat" (1982).
- Gibson Firebird about "Hammer to Fall" and "Tear It Up" (only the album version, not on stage).
- Ibanez JS in "Nothing But Blue" (1991).
- Parker Fly in "Mother Love" (1993-1995).
For acoustics, he likes Ovation, Martin, T'kai Hummingbird, Godin, and Guild. On some videos he also used several different electric guitars: a copy of Stratocaster on "Play the Game" (1980) and Washburn RR2V on "Princes of the Universe" (1986).
In 1984, the Guild released the first official Red Special replica for mass production, and made several special prototypes for May. But the solid body construction (the original RS has a hollow cavity in the body) and pick-up (DiMarzio) which is not a proper replica of Burns TriSonic did not make May happy, so production stopped after only 300 guitars. In 1993 the Guild made a second replica of the RS, which was made in just 1000 copies, which May has some and used as a backup. Currently, he uses two guitars made by Greg Fryer - luthier who returned the Old Lady in 1998 - as a back-up. They are almost identical to the original, except the Fryer logo in the headstock (the original May has six pence).
In the studio, May uses the DX7 Yamaha synthesizer for the opening sequence of "One Vision" and the background "Who Wants to Live Forever" (also on stage), "Scandal" and "The Show Must Go On". He mostly uses the 1972 Steinway Freddie Mercury piano and is reportedly now having the instrument in question. May is interested in using some toys as an instrument as well. He uses Yamaha's plastic piano in "Teo Torriatte" and mini koto toys in "The Prophet's Song". He also used "original George Formby Ukulele-Banjo" in "Bring Back That Leroy Brown" and "Good Company".
Amplifier and effects
May has been using the Vox AC30 amplifier almost exclusively since meeting her old hero, Rory Gallagher, at a show in London in the late 1960s/early 1970s. In the mid-1970s he used six of them, with Echoplex delays (with extended delay time) plugged into separate amplifiers, and the second Echoplex plugged into amp; he uses a homemade booster, his only effect pedal, which is always there all the time. The choice is the AC30TBX model, the top-boost version with the Blue Alnico speaker, and it runs the amp at full volume on the Normal channel.
It can also customize its amps by removing the circuitry for the Brilliant and Vib-tram channels (leaving only the circuit for Normal), and this changes the tone slightly, with the gain gain 6-7 dB. He always uses a treble booster that, along with the AC30 and custom 'Deacy Amp' transistor amp, built by bass player Queen John Deacon, is very helpful in creating many of his signature guitar tones. She uses Dallas Rangemaster for her first Queen album, up to A Day at the Races . Effect guru Pete Cornish built for her TB-83 (32 dB gain) used for all remaining Queen albums. He switched on 2000 to be a Fryer booster, which actually provided less encouragement than TB-83.
When performing live broadcasts, he uses a Vox AC30 amplifier bank that stores multiple amps only with guitars and more with all effects like delays, flangers, and choirs. He has a rack of 14 AC30s, grouped as Normal, Chorus, Delay1, Delay 2. On his board, May has a custom switch unit made by Cornish and then modified by Fryer which allows him to choose an active amp. He used the 70s BOSS pedal, Chorus Ensemble CE-1, which can be heard in "In The Lap of the Gods" ( Live at Wembley '86 ) or "Hammer to Fall" (Version slow played directly with P. Rodgers). Later in the chain, he uses Foxx Foot Phaser ("We Will Rock You", "We Are the Champions", "Keep Yourself Alive", etc.), and two tugs to play his typical solos in "Brighton Rock".
Other instruments
The first instrument Maybel could learn was the banjolele, which he played on Queen's song "Bring Back That Leroy Brown" (live and in the studio). For "Good Company", he uses the regular baritone ukulele he bought in Hawaii on vacation. Sometimes, May will also record on other string instruments such as the lute (one chord per shot, then copied and pasted by engineers to make it sound like a continuous performance) and bass (on some demos and many songs in his solo career, and Queen Ratu's album Rodgers).
As a child, he also trained classical piano. Although Freddie Mercury is the band's main pianist, May will occasionally enter (as in "Save Me", "Flash", "Who Wants To Live Forever"). From 1979 onwards, he also played synthesizers, organs ("Wedding March", "Let Me Live") and drum-machines programmed for the Queen project and beyond (like producing other artists and solo recordings themselves).
Vocal
May is also a great singer. From Queen's Queen II to The Game , May contributes lead vocals to at least one song per album. May co-composed a mini opera with Lee Holdridge, Il Colosso , for the 1996 Steve Barron movie, The Adventures of Pinocchio . May features operas with Jerry Hadley, Sissel Kyrkjebo, and Just William. On the screen, it's done entirely by the doll.
Highlights
Brian May began writing in 1968 to 1969, and over the years he had collaborated with other songwriters, including Frank Musker, with whom he wrote "Too Much Love Will Kill You", and with Elizabeth Lamers, whose music won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Music Songs & amp; Lyrics in 1996. A careful arranger, he focused on multi-part harmony, often more contrapril than parallel - a relative scarcity for rock guitar. An example is found on Queen's albums A Night at the Opera and A Day at the Races, where she arranges jazz bands for mini-orchestra guitars ("Good Company"), canons vocals ("The Prophet's Song") and guitar and vocal counterpoints ("Teo Torriatte").
May explored various guitar styles, including sweep picking ("Was It Worth All It", "Chinese Torture"), tremolo ("Brighton Rock", "Stone Cold Crazy", "Death on Two Legs", "Sweet Lady" Bohemian Rhapsody "," Get Down Make Love "," Dragon Attack "), tap (" Bijou "," It's Too Late "," Resurrection "," Cyborg "," Rain Must Fall "," Business "," China Belle " , "Drowse", "Tie Your Mother Down"), Hendrix sounds licking ("Wild", "Brighton Rock"), tape-delay ("Brighton" Rock "," I Was Born To Love You " "White Man") and melodic sequence ("Bohemian Rhapsody", "Killer Queen", "It's the Day of Our Lives".) Some parts of the solo and orchestra were composed by Freddie Mercury, who then asked May to live them ("Racing Bicycles "," Lazing on Sunday Evening "," Killer Queen "," Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy "). Can also perform famous acoustic works, including live versions of acoustic guitar" Love of My Life "from the 1975s < i> A Night at the Opera , solo finger "White Queen" and skiffle-influenced "'39".
In January 2007, readers of Guitar World chose "May Bohemian Rhapsody", "Brighton Rock" solo guitar into "The Greatest 50 Greatest Solos Guitar of all time" ("Bohemian Rhapsody" was selected as No. 20 and "Brighton Rock" selected # 41).
Aided by the uniqueness of his guitar - Red SpecialÃ, - May is often able to create strange and unusual sound effects. For example, he was able to mimic an orchestra in the song "Procession"; in "Get Down, Make Love" he is able to create various sound effects with his guitar; in "Good Company" he uses his guitar to emulate trombone, piccolo, and some other instruments for the song of Dixieland jazz band. The queen uses "No synthesizers used on this album" note the arms on their early albums to make this clear to the listeners. May also uses his guitar to create a combined effect on Bohemian Rhapsody.
Scientific career
May studied physics and mathematics at Imperial College London, graduated with a BSc (Hons) and ARC in physics with a Second Class High Honors. From 1970 to 1974, he studied for a PhD at Imperial College, studied reflected light from interplanetary dust and dust speed in the field of the Solar System. When the Queen began to have international success in 1974, she abandoned her doctoral studies, but co-authored two research papers that were evaluated, based on her observations at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife.
In October 2006, Mei re-enrolled for a PhD at Imperial College and submitted his thesis in August 2007 (one year earlier than expected to complete). As well as writing the previous work he has done, May should review the work on the zodiac dust carried out during the 33-year intervention, which includes the discovery of zodiac dust bands by NASA's IRAS satellite. After viva voce, the revised thesis (titled Radial Velocity Survey on Zodiacal Dust Cloud ) was approved in September 2007, some 37 years after it started. He was able to submit his thesis only because of the lack of research on the topic during the following years and has described the subject as something "trendy" again in the 2000s. His PhD studied radial velocities using absorption spectroscopy and doppler spectroscopy of zodiac light using a Fabry-PÃÆ' © rot based interferometer at Teide Observatory in Tenerife. His research was supervised by Jim Ring, Ken Reay and at the last stage by Michael Rowan-Robinson. He graduated at the Imperial College award ceremony held at the Royal Albert Hall on May 14, 2008.
In October 2007, May was appointed Visiting Researcher at Imperial College and continued his interest in astronomy and involvement with the Imperial Astrophysics Group. He is co-author, with Sir Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott, from Bang! - The Complete History of the Universe and The Cosmic Tourist .
Asteroid 52665 Brianmay was named in his honor on June 18, 2008 at the suggestion of Sir Patrick Moore (possibly influenced by the provisional asteroid of 1998 BM 30 ).
In 2014, May co-founded Asteroid Day with Apollo 9 astronauts, Rusty Schweickart, B612 Foundation COO Danica Remy, and German filmmaker Grigorij Richters. Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign in which people from all over the world come together to learn about asteroids and what we can do to protect our planet.
Can appear in the 700th episode of The Sky at Night hosted by Sir Patrick Moore, along with Chris Lintott, Jon Culshaw, Prof. Brian Cox, and Astronomer Royal Martin Rees who, upon leaving the panel, said Brian May, who joined him, "I do not know a scientist who looks like Isaac Newton like you." May also guested in the first episode of the third series of BBC Live Stars , on January 8, 2013.
On November 17, 2007, May was appointed Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University, and installed in 2008. He holds that post until 2013.
During the NASA flyby New Horizons Pluto conference held on July 17, 2015 at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Brian May was introduced as a collaborator of the science team. He told the panel "You have inspired the world."
Personal life
From 1974 to 1988, May married Christine Mullen, and they had three children: James (born June 15, 1978), Louisa (born May 22, 1981), and Emily Ruth (born February 18, 1987). They split up in 1988. May once met actress Anita Dobson in 1986, and she inspired him to write a 1989 hit "I Want It All". They married on November 18, 2000.
He has stated in interviews that he suffered severe depression in the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the point of considering suicide, for reasons related to his first troubled marriage, his failure as husband and father, his father Harold's death , and Freddie Mercury's illness and death.
According to The Sunday Times Rich List 2017, May worth Ã, £ 125 million. He owns a home in London and Windlesham, Surrey. May Harold's father was a heavy smoker who had been a long time. As a result, May did not like smoking, to the point where she had banned smoking indoors at her concert before many countries imposed a smoking ban. Mei is a vegetarian. He is an active animal rights advocate, and was appointed vice president of animal welfare charity, RSPCA, in September 2012. May describes himself as agnostic.
May is a long-term champion of the jungle as a paradise and "corridor" for wildlife, both in Surrey, where she owns home and elsewhere. In 2012, he purchased threatened land by building development in Bere Regis, Dorset and, in 2013 and with enthusiastic support from local villagers, embarked on a project to create a forest area, now called May's Wood (or "Brian May Wood"). The wood is made up of 157 acres, previously under the plow, planted by May team colleagues with 100,000 trees. May's Wood is said to flourish.
Activism
Hopefully has formed a group to promote animal welfare. Although the Conservative Party voters have been largely alive, he has stated that their policy of fox hunting and destruction of badgers means he did not vote for them in the general election of Great Britain 2010. His group, Save Me (named after the Queen's song written in May), campaigned for the protection of all animals against unnecessary, cruel and degrading treatment; with special emphasis on the prevention of fox hunting and culling. The group's main concern is to ensure that the 2004 Hunting Act and other laws protecting animals are maintained in situ.
In an interview in September 2010 with Stephen Sackur for the BBC HARDtalk program, May said he preferred to be remembered for his animal rights work rather than his music or his scientific work. May is a faithful supporter of the RSPCA, the International Fund for Animal Welfare, the League Against Cruel Sports, the UK MAP and the Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue.
In March 2012, May contributed a foreword to a target paper published by the Bow Group think tank, urging the government to reconsider its plan to wipe out thousands of badunds to control bovin tuberculosis, stating that the findings of the majority of laboratory extermination stones, several years earlier , indicating that the extermination did not succeed. The paper was written by Graham Godwin-Pearson with contributions by prominent tuberculosis scientists, including Lord Krebs.
In 2013, May joins French guitarist Jean-Pierre Danel for a Danel charity launched for animal rights in France. The guitarists signed guitars and art photos together, and joined Hank Marvin.
In May 2013, May teamed up with actors Brian Blessed and the Jonti Flash cartoon "Weebl" Picking, as well as animal rights groups including the RSPCA, to form Team Badger, a "coalition of organizations that have worked together to fight badgers' plans". With Weebl and Blessed, May recorded the single, "Save the Badger Badger Badger" - a mashup of the Weebl Flash 2003 virus viral blobs, "Badger Badger Badger", and Queen's "Flash", featuring vocals by Blessed. On September 1, 2013, "Save The Badger Badger Badger" is mapped in No. 79 in UK Singles Chart, No. 39 on the UK iTunes chart and No. 1 on the iTunes Rock chart. In June 2013, renowned naturalist David Attenborough and rock guitarist Slash joined forces with May to form a supergroup, Artful Badger and Friends, and released a song dedicated to badgers, "Badger Swagger".
Prior to the 2015 general election, it was reported that May was considering standing as an independent Member of Parliament. It was also revealed that May had begun the "Common Decency" project to rebuild common decency in our lives, jobs and Parliaments. " May said he wanted to "get rid of the current government" and hoped to see the House of Commons containing "individuals who voted for their conscience". Mei is one of several celebrities who endorsed the parliamentary nomination of Green Party Caroline Lucas in the election. He also supports Conservative Party candidate Henry Smith on the basis of his animal welfare record.
In July 2015, May criticized British Prime Minister David Cameron for giving Free Members of Parliament a free vote on amendments to the fox hunting ban in England and Wales. During a live television interview, he also attacked the pro-hunter's organization, the Countryside Alliance as "a bunch of lies who lie" for their support for changes to the law. The vote was postponed by the government following the intervention of Westminster MPs of the Scottish National Party, which is committed to choosing to keep the ban as it is. May told anti-poaching protesters at a rally outside Parliament that it was "a very, very important day for our democracy" but added "we have not won the war, there is no room for complacency".
In September 2015, a new species of Brazilian
In June 2017, May supported Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn in the 2017 general election. May shared an article on Twitter by The Independent, titled "Jeremy Corbyn says Fox's hunt is 'barbarity' and promises to keep banning it" and gives caption: "Well, I guess that's just about it !! Does anyone see a good reason not to prefer Corbyn that seems better than the weak and wobbly Mrs. May? Bri"
Stereophotography
May has had a lifetime interest in collecting Victorian stereophotography. In 2009, along with co-author Elena Vidal, she published her second book, Lost and Found Village, in the work of English stereophotographic innovator T. R. Williams. He was awarded the Saxby Medal of the Royal Photography Society in 2012 for achievements in the field of three-dimensional imaging.
Can make significant technical contributions to the book to accompany the exhibition 'Pablo Picasso Stereoscopic Photo by Robert Mouzillat', held at the Holburne Museum in Bath, England from February to June 2014. This book presents cross-sectional Picasso photographs in his studio, at bullfighting in the Arles and in his garden. May's 3D 'Owl viewer' is used to view photos in 3D.
His first card purchase in 1973 began in May on a lifetime search and around the world for Les Diableries, which is a stereoscopic photograph depicting the scene of everyday life in Hell. On October 10, 2013 the Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell by Brian May, Denis Pellerin and Paula Fleming were published.
Recently, in 2017, May published a book with about 300 stereoscopic photos (from tens of thousands of options) from all of Queen's history. In this book also included 'Owl viewer' which has been patented in May.
Discography
- With the Queen
- Solo discography
- Back to Light (1992)
- Other World (1998)
- Furia (2000) soundtrack
- Collaboration
- Acoustic by Candlelight (with Kerry Ellis) (2013)
- Golden Day (with Kerry Ellis) (2017)
References
External links
- Quotes related to Brian May on Wikiquote
- Media related to Brian May on Wikimedia Commons
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