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Sir Brian Harold May is an English musician, animal welfare activist, and astrophysicist. He achieved global fame as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band Queen, which he co-founded with singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor. His guitar work and songwriting contributions helped Queen become one of the most successful acts in music history.
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Born 19 July 1947 · Q15873
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This pandemic seemed to come from people eating animals and it’s becoming more well known that eating animals is not the greatest thing for our health … We’ve seen more of the effects of how eating animals has brought us to our knees as a species, I think it’s time to re-examine our world in a way that doesn’t abuse other species.
It’s been made light of, and we’ve seen some great films, like Bruce Willis saving the day, but it is a very serious threat.
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“This pandemic seemed to come from people eating animals and it’s becoming more well known that eating animals is not the greatest thing for our health … We’ve seen more of the effects of how eating animals has brought us to our knees as a species, I think it’s time to re-examine our world in a way that doesn’t abuse other species.”
“It’s been made light of, and we’ve seen some great films, like Bruce Willis saving the day, but it is a very serious threat.”
“a very, very important day for our democracy”
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“get rid of the current government”
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Published video “The Music of Masters - “The Legend of Eternia””.
Published video “"The Legend of Eternia” performed by Brian May, Daniel Pemberton and The Darkness”.
Public attention spiked: 9,680 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.1× the usual 3,126, with 0 article edits.
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Published video “BRIAN MAY REVEALS CAPTIVATING GALAXIES 3-D INSTALLATION AT NEW EXHIBITION”.
Published video “BRIAN MAY AND COAUTHORS PRESENT CAPTIVATING NEW BOOK, ISLANDS IN INFINITY: GALAXIES 3-D”.
Published video “Praise Your Name - Talia featuring Brian May (Official Video) out now! #brianmay #shorts”.
Published video “Praise Your Name - Talia featuring Brian May (Official Video)”.
Published video “Brian May's London Stereoscopic Company Christmas ad 2025”.
Published video “PATRICK MOORE IN THE SUN (Full Documentary)”.
Published video “Happy birthday to Brian, you're a living legend! 👑🎸🥳 #brianmay #shorts”.
May contributed guitar to a re-release of Mark Knopfler's "Going Home: Theme of the Local Hero" in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (2023).
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May contributed to NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, the agency's first successful collection and earth delivery of samples directly from an asteroid (the asteroid Bennu)
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May was awarded a Doctorate of Science honoris causa by Professor Brad Gibson in the EA Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Hull
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Published “Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis” in The Lancet — cited 14,025 times.
Contributed the stereography images of the structural stability of double asteroid (65803) Didymos, the target of the NASA DART and ESA Hera missions, in a publication in the peer-reviewed journal Icarus by DART and H
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Released ep “Back to the Light”.
Participated in the team that contributed the stereography images of numerical simulations of asteroid disruptions and re-accumulations in a publication in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications by Michel, P
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May experienced a small heart attack in May 2020.
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A vegan since taking part in the 2020 Veganuary challenge, May has blamed meat eating for the COVID-19 pandemic.
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On the song We Are One, taken from Lewis' 2018 album release Million
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Released album “Golden Days”.
Released album “Collaborations”.
Released album “Collaborations II”.
The group embarked across Europe and Asia on the Queen + Adam Lambert 2016 Summer Festival Tour
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May played guitar on the end credits song "One Voice" from the film A Dog Named Gucci
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May co-founded Asteroid Day with Apollo 9 astronaut Rusty Schweickart, B612 Foundation COO Danica Remy and German filmmaker Grigorij Richters
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Released album “Starmus: Sonic Universe”.
When the three performed together at the iHeartRadio Music Festival at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on 20 September
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Released album “Acoustic by Candlelight: Live on the Born Free Tour”.
Released album “The Candlelight Concerts: Live at Montreux 2013”.
A new species of the genus Heteragrion (Odonata: Zygoptera) from Brazil was named Heteragrion brianmayi—one of four Heteragrion flatwing damselflies named after the bandmates, paying tribute to the 40th anniversary of Qu
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“There are plenty of people who want to discredit me and I have become accustomed to that, and these are mainly people who want to continue hunting or people who are convinced a badger cull is going to solve the TB problem in cattle which I”
Received a double-neck replica of the Red Special, with the second neck having 12-strings
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Was further ranked the second-greatest guitarist in a Guitar World magazine readers poll
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In 2012, he bought land threatened by building development at Bere Regis, Dorset, and, in 2013 and with the enthusiastic support of local villagers, initiated a project to create an area of woodland, now called May's Wood (or "the Brian May Wood").
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Including three dates at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, as well as shows in Ukraine, Russia and Poland
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Bought land threatened by building development at Bere Regis, Dorset, and, in 2013 and with the enthusiastic support of local villagers, initiated a project to create an area of woodland, now called May's Wood (or "th
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And toured the world tour over 2014 and 2015
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Awarded Audience Award for Most Popular Show (2011).
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Was ranked number 26 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"
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Contributed to a feature about Collins for FHM, praising him as "a great guy and an amazing drummer"
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Titled A Village Lost and Found: Scenes in Our Village
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May and Taylor began contemplating the future of Queen after the group's amicable split with frontman Paul Rodgers
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Having also been awarded an honorary fellowship from the university for his contribution to astronomy and services to the public understanding of science
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Career landmark: Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University (2008–2013).
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And was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 2008 to 2013
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May earned a PhD degree in astrophysics from Imperial College London for work started in 1971
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2005).
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For services to the music industry and for charity work
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With Paul Rodgers, the founder and former lead singer of Free and Bad Company
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A Planet Rock poll saw May voted the seventh-greatest guitarist of all time
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May reported that he had identified the location as the village of Hinton Waldrist in Oxfordshire
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Announced that he and drummer Roger Taylor were going on tour for the first time in 18 years as "Queen", along with Free/Bad Company vocalist Paul Rodgers
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"I don't think anyone has epitomised riff writing better than Jimmy Page — he's one of the great brains of rock music"
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May announced a search to identify the actual location of the Scenes in Our Village images
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May played guitar on the Foo Fighters song Tired of You for their album One By One
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May was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Queen and, in 2018, the band received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
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Released album “Furia”.
Released album “Live at Wembley / Back to the Light”.
Released album “Ultimate Rarities”.
To the Fryer's booster, which actually gives less boost than the TB-83
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Released ep “Red Special”.
Released album “Another World”.
May has been performing as a solo artist, as part of an ensemble, and infrequently as Queen with Roger Taylor
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May began working on a new solo album of covers tentatively titled Heroes, in addition to working on various film and television projects and other collaborations
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Released album “Live at Brixton Academy”.
Released album “Out On His Own”.
Released album “1993-03-14: Long Live the Queen: Beacon Theater, New York City, NY, USA”.
Guild made a second replica of the RS, made in just 1000 copies, of which May has some and used as a back-up
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Released album “Back to the Light”.
For release on his The Unauthorised Biography compilation album
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But was left until a later date due to other commitments
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May listed Hendrix, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton as his guitar heroes
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And the Party at the Palace in 2002, when Collins had played drums with Queen
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May contributed guitar solos to the song "When Death Calls" on Black Sabbath's 14th album Headless Cross, and the Living in a Box track "Blow The House Down" on the album Gatecrashing
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“When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures.”
May contributed to former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett's album Feedback 86, playing guitar on the track "Cassandra" and providing guitar and vocals for "Slot Machine", which May co-wrote
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May worked with actress Anita Dobson on her first album, most noted for the song "Anyone Can Fall in Love", which added lyrics to the EastEnders theme tune and reached number four on the UK Singles Chart in August 1986
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The album was not released commercially until 2000
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Mercury rang his band members and proposed writing a song together
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Released album “Radio Voices”.
Guild released the first official Red Special replica for mass production and made some prototypes specifically for May
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Released album “Star Fleet Project”.
“Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
(May smashed it during a concert in the US in 1982), Greco BM90 (featured in the promo video of "Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy" in 1977), Guild (back-up from 1984 to 1993), Fryers (1997–1998, used both live and in the stu
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“s his relationship with his wealth like?”
Abandoned his doctoral studies, but nonetheless co-authored two peer-reviewed research papers, which were based on his observations at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife
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And bass guitarist John Deacon completed the line-up in 1971
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With a BSc degree in physics with honours
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Born 1947-07-19.
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