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In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

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Brian May
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 19
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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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