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Brian May says this Queen song inspired Eddie Van Halen’s two-hand tapping technique

Along with Jimmy Page's Heartbreaker solo, May's tap-heavy lead effort from a 1977 Queen song proved to be an influential force in EVH's own approach

Guitar World

Brian May: "Humans are pretty much eliminating all species except the ones that we think are useful to us"

Queen's Brian May elaborates on a previous comment in which saw him argue that humans should not travel to space until they "sort out how to behave on their own planet"

Louder

Queen legend Brian May helped NASA ace its asteroid-sampling mission, new book reveals

Queen guitarist Brian May and the chief scientist of NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx mission have collaborated on a book about the asteroid Bennu — and it's not a PR stunt.

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“It was exhilarating – it felt like an illicit liaison”: the true story of Brian May and Eddie Van Halen’s Star Fleet Project collaboration

How a kids’ TV show inspired a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between two of rock’s greatest guitarists

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OPINION - Tracey Emin: Drink used to sustain me, but now I’m free — though I must apologise to Brian May

Today I’m in trouble, because I feel like going insane — not insane in a bad way but just losing myself, being wild, standing on the edge of something that scares me. As Lord Byron said, I’m standing on the edge of a precipice, and it’s a wonderful feeling because…

Evening Standard

Cancelled shows, opening goals and easy paydays – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

Boost pedals: the history of the stompbox that supercharged the sound of rock ’n’ roll – and how to make the most of one on your pedalboard

Tony Iommi, Brian May and Eddie Van Halen all honed their tone by boosting their amps – here’s how a boost pedal can enhance your guitar rig

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Queen guitarist Brian May to release a book of 3D images of asteroid Bennu

Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May is about to release a book of 3D photographs of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, based on images gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft.

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“I thought I’d bitten off more than I can chew”: how Yes guitarist Steve Howe accidentally ended up playing on a Queen hit single

Yes guitarist Steve Howe was having lunch in Switzerland when he was roped into appearing on Queen’s 1991 single Innuendo

Louder

Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Brian May to release 3D atlas of asteroid

The rocker astrophysicist is co-author of a three-dimensional atlas of Bennu, an asteroid explored by the Osiris-Rex probe in 2020

The Guardian - US

“He’s the funkiest dude in the shredder family tree”: The world’s greatest guitarists explain why Nuno Bettencourt isn’t your typical guitar hero

Brian May, Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai and Tom Morello join an all-star cast to explain what makes the Extreme virtuoso one of the guitar world’s most valuable players

Guitar World

“Thanks to everyone who has extracted a morsel of enjoyment from our music”: Queen receive a BRIT Billion Award

The award from the BPI is to commemorate Queen surpassing one billion streams in the UK

Louder

"It was the antithesis of Bohemian Rhapsody and on the same album" – Brian May on the Queen deep cut that doesn't get the love it deserves

"It just sits on an album there, and people who really want to get into Queen are aware of what that was and what it is"

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"I wasn't likely to upstage Brian or Freddie": Queen's John Deacon - a tribute to an elusive bass giant

Brian May: "He won't talk to me, so why the f**k would he talk to you?"

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"I don’t think anyone else had ever attempted something like that" – Brian May chooses his best performance from the Queen back catalogue

And it's not Bohemian Rhapsody

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"It's going to be chaotic!": Brian May shares amazing rare footage of Queen rehearsing for Live Aid, and being interviewed ahead of their iconic Wembley Stadium performance

Watch priceless footage of Queen rehearsing Bohemian Rhapsody, Radio Ga Ga and more ahead of their spectacular 1985 Live Aid performance

Louder

"I find the world a very strange and screwed up place. I don’t feel comfortable in the world as it is now": Queen's Brian on why Britain's political landscape makes him depressed

Queen legend Brian May slams the UK government for "wrecking" Britain, discusses how he copes with his depression

Guitar World

“Picks were too bendy. I couldn’t feel what was happening as the thing touched the string”: Brian May explains why he uses sixpences instead of picks

The Queen hero has used a sixpence to craft his most iconic solos and riffs – here's why

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Brian May + Friends’ Star Fleet Project mini-album is the sound of two guitar giants having the time of their lives

Album review: Queen guitarist Brian May’s long-lost 1983 Star Fleet Project collaboration with Eddie Van Halen gets lovingly dusted down

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“All the excesses of rock’n’roll stardom – the sex, the drugs, the parties – were open to us”: Extreme’s Gary Cherone and Nuno Bettencourt on the highs, the lows and the hedonism

Extreme’s career has taken in one huge hit, millions of album sales, a split, a reunion and a big dollop of over-indulgent rock star living. Frontman Gary Cherone and guitarist Nuno Bettencourt look back on where it all went right, and where it all went wrong.

Louder

"John just looked at us and said, I can’t do this any more”: Brian May on why John Deacon walked away from Queen

"John is still very much part of Queen": Brian May on John Deacon's decision to put down his bass following Freddie Mercury's death

The Guardian - UK

Brian May: ‘Nothing could ever top playing on the roof of Buckingham Palace with no safety net’

The Queen guitarist answers your questions, on regretting never playing with John Lennon, his love of Pink and Avril Lavigne, and his beef with Michael Eavis

Louder

Listen to Van Halen blaze through a cover of Queen’s Now I’m Here… in 1975

Proof that Eddie Van Halen and Dave Lee Roth were huge fans of Queen before either band became megastars

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Brian May

Ask the Queen guitarist anything from the reissue of his 1983 album Star Fleet to being knighted by the king. Was Bohemian Rhapsody really called Mongolian Rhapsody? Or is this just fantasy?

Guitar World

Nuno Bettencourt on why Instagram players make his jaw drop, how Eddie Van Halen inspired Extreme's new album – and why he apologized to Brian May for one of its leads

The Extreme virtuoso talks wowing everyone from Steve Lukather to Mateus Asato with his awe-inspiring Rise solo, the state of modern guitar playing, and the gear secrets – and mistakes – behind one of the year's biggest rock guitar albums

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