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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.

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"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

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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

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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

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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?

The Guardian - UK

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

Guitar World

“Sir, are you married?”: the unlikely connection between Queen’s Brian May and punk band X-Ray Spex

Queen guitarist Brian May crossed paths with a punk icon years before either was famous

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Brian May pays tribute to Queen bandmate Freddie Mercury on 50th anniversary of debut

The guitar legend reveals he still 'misses the butterflies' he would feel while watching the flamboyant frontman strut his stuff on stage

Daily Mirror

This unassuming guitar teacher’s epic America’s Got Talent audition went viral. Here’s how he landed – and nailed – the gig of a lifetime

John Wines, aka Old Grey Guitarist, has over 1m followers on TikTok and blew audiences away with his Brian May and Eddie Van Halen-channeling audition. He tells us how he put together the perfect rock-guitar showcase, and the secret to bossing the electric guitar’s greatest solos on social media

Guitar World

"A vision with the light shining through her dress" - the woman who inspired Free's All Right Now

The "raunchy and suggestive" All Right Now broke Free in America - although the band members' stories about the origins of their most famous song differ

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King quips about making ‘a mess of this planet’ at space sustainability event

Charles hosted guests including Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, British astronaut Tim Peake and Queen guitarist and astrophysicist Sir Brian May.

The Independent UK

Brian May salutes the genius of Eddie Van Halen: “It was like watching Hendrix for the first time”

Queen guitarist Brian May looks back on working with “incredible” Eddie Van Halen on the Star Fleet Project mini album

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A royal birth: the real story of Queen's first album - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Tina Turner, Star Fleet Project, Scorpions, Billy Gibbons, Geezer Butler, Drive-By Truckers, Vintage Trouble, The Alarm, Luke Morley, Buckcherry and more

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The 10 Greatest Festival Bands Ever, as chosen by The Darkness' Dan Hawkins

Ahead of his band's BST Hyde Park show with Guns N' Roses, The Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins selects his dream festival line-up. Scream for me Danington!

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Guitar World

Unassuming guitar teacher goes viral after channeling Brian May and Eddie Van Halen in epic America's Got Talent audition

Under the handle @oldgreyguitarist, John Wines has amassed 1.3 million followers on TikTok

Louder

Crown Lands: the duo ushering prog’s illustrious past into a magisterial future

Canadian hopefuls Crown Lands on the "mathiness" of modern prog, world building, indigenous rights, and sounding a LOT like Rush

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Watch Brian May enthuse about Star Fleet Project on kids' TV in 1983

'Yeah! We've done it! Great!' - Brian May on the recording sessions that bequeathed Star Fleet Project (featuring Eddie Van Halen) to The World

Guitar World

Vox amPlug Brian May Special Edition Set review

Vox’s mini headphone guitar amp gets a royal ascent, courtesy of the Queen guitar legend

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The Guardian - UK

We Will Rock You review – Ben Elton stars as royally ridiculous Queen musical returns

Rousing songs but threadbare plot as Earth has been conquered, renamed iPlanet and – inexplicably – can only be saved by a band of rock’n’rollers

Manchester Evening News

Pink shares emotional message inside Bolton stadium as she teases "fantasy feat of a lifetime"

Her world tour kicks off in Bolton tonight - and it sounds like fans can expect something quite extraordinary

Guitar World

Watch Brian May, James Burton, Arielle, Christone "Kingfish" Ingram and 11-year-old Britain's Got Talent star Harry Churchill rock Johnny B. Goode

Albert Lee, Ronnie Wood, Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter and Tommy Emmanuel were also on hand at the London Palladium for a tribute to Burton, a legendary guitarist most famous for his tenure as Elvis Presley's six-string sidekick

Guitar World

Nuno Bettencourt says the Rise solo opens with a mistake

The Extreme guitarist reveals his recent technical masterpiece starts with an error: “I miss the whole string completely, I was so excited”

Guitar World

11-year-old guitarist brings literal shred fireworks and Marty McFly-flavored tapping to Britain's Got Talent stage

Having already won plaudits from Brian May, young Harry Churchill further wowed viewers and judges alike with Johnny B. Goode á la Back to the Future, and Kiss-like theatrics

Guitar World

Brian May and Eddie Van Halen's Star Fleet Project mini-album is finally coming to streaming – with unreleased EVH solos

Among other never-before-heard gems, the reissued set will feature a dozen takes of Star Fleet, which together chart the course of a solo that May cites as "one of the greatest things" Eddie Van Halen ever did

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Brian May and Eddie Van Halen's Star Fleet Project to be reissued as massively expanded box set

The long-awaited reissue of Brian May + Friends' Star Fleet Project will arrive next month – listen to new mix of Star Fleet single now

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