Brian May

In this video we are going to talk about Brian May, we will talk about his
life and his career.

Brian Harold May born 19 July 1947 is an English musician, singer,

songwriter and astrophysicist, best known as the lead guitarist of the
rock band Queen He uses a home-built electric guitar,. His compositions
for the band include "We Will Rock You", "Tie Your Mother Down", "I
Want It All", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "Flash", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me",
"Who Wants to Live Forever" and "The Show Must Go On".

Early life and education

Brian Harold May, the only child of Harold and Ruth May, was born
in Hampton, London on 19 July 1947, and attended the local Hampton
Grammar School, then a voluntary aided school (now independent and
known as Hampton School) He is of English and Scottish descent, with
his mother being Scots.During this time, he formed his first band,
named 1984 after George Orwell's novel of the same name, with
vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell

Musical career
May formed the band Smile in 1968. The group included Tim Staffell as
the lead singer and bassist, and later, drummer Roger Taylor, who also
went on to play for Queen. The band lasted for only two years, from
1968 to 1970, as Staffell departed in 1970, leaving the band with a
catalogue of nine songs. Smile would reunite for several songs on 22
December 1992. Taylor's band The Cross were headliners, and he
brought May and Staffell on to play "Earth" and "If I Were a
Carpenter".[22] May also performed several other songs that night.
Influences

May has been referred to as a virtuoso guitarist by many publications

guitarists, and in 2011 was ranked number 26 on Rolling
Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All
Time".Former Van Halenvocalist Sammy Hagar stated, "I thought
Queen were really innovative and made some great sounding records.
I like the rockin' stuff. I think Brian May has one of the great guitar
tones on the planet, and I really, really love his guitar work. May mainly
used the "Red Special", which he designed when he was only 16 years
old. It was built with wood from an 18th century fireplace. His
comments on the guitar:

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.

— Brian May

Scientific career
He graduated in Physics and Astronomy at Imperial College London in
1968. For his doctorate in astrophysics, Brian studied the reflection of
the light from interplanetary dust in the Solar System. His thesis, An
Investigation of Motion of Zodiacal Dust Particles, is based on his
observations at the Teide Observatory, on the island of Tenerife, during
the years 1971 and 1972 whose works he made two publications.

The first, 'MgI emission in the night sky spectrum' was published in the
prestigious 'Nature' magazine on December 15, 1972, while 'Research
on the movement of particles of zodiacal dust' appeared in the magazine
month period of the Royal Astronomical Society of England in 1975.

However, May stopped writing her thesis when Queen began to be a

successful band and only resumed it after more than thirty years to
deliver it in 2007. The ceremony of its graduation was in Royal Albert
Hall on the afternoon of May 14, 2008, 37 years later. On July 19, 2007
he was appointed Honorary Chancellor of Liverpool's John Moores
University (LJMU), taking over from Cherie Blair and since 2008
assiduously attends the solemn acts of this British university as the
highest academic authority.

Activism

May has formed a group to promote animal welfare. Though

a Conservative Party voter most of his life,[143] he has stated that their
policies on fox hunting and the culling of badgers meant he did not vote
for them at the 2010 UK general election. His group, Save Me (named
after the May-written Queen song), campaigns for the protection of all
animals against unnecessary, cruel and degrading treatment; with a
particular emphasis on preventing hunting of foxes and the culling of
badgers.[14] The group's primary concern is to ensure that the Hunting
Act 2004 and other laws protecting animals are retained in situ.

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