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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
Actor
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Hampton
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Brian Harold May
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The potential audience seems to be dwindling in the states. I was kind of embarrassed for the band because of the size of the audience.
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Sanctions always hurt the poor, the weak, the children.
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My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.
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I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.
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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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It's wonderful for me to see what 'We Will Rock You' has done. 'We Will Rock You' and 'We Are the Champions' have kind of transcended the normal framework of where music is listened to and appreciated - they've become part of public life, which I feel wonderful about.
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I'm not a person for sitting on beaches. What would I do?
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There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.
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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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What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.
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People have been rumouring that Queen are going to split up for the last eight years at least. I've got some great cuttings at home from people saying 'One thing is certain, Queen will no longer exist in a year's time.' And that was in 1973.
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I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.
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We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
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