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There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect that's why we threw them in

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Brian May
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 19
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Hampton
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Brian Harold May
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You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.
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From the beginning of Queen there was such momentum that I never had any time to do anything else. My energy was 95% focused on the band
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Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.
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I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.
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I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.
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On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.
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For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil.
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My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.
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I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.
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I've always lived in that guitar world. I have noticed kids being more into the real essence of guitar music now.
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Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do
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I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.
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