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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

Guitar World

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.

Space

“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

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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

Metal Hammer

"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

Louder

“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

Guitar World

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

Louder

“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

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

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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?

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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

Louder

“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

Daily Mirror

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

Guitar World

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

Louder

"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

The Independent UK

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.

Louder

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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