Riemanns Cut (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Conner - The Feeling I am dead certain that The Feeling's lead singer, Dan Gillespie Sells, is Queen drummer, Roger Taylor, in disguise. Their voices are amazingly similar. And that song is like something ROger would do. It's hard choosing two songs which give a 100% clear example of the similarity, but if you're anyway familiar with Roger's voice I'm sure you'll have to agree that The Feeling ripped...
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
Happy Birthday to "ER" star Anthony Edwards (1962), Queen guitarist Brian May (1947), singer Vikki Carr (1941), animator/producer Max Fleischer (1883; d. 1972), and French Impressionist painter Edgar Degas (1834; d. 1917).[...] Read more!
The Sun (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
BRIAN May 'appalled' by ITV's coverage of Queen in last week's Mandela concert
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Brian May criticises ITV for cutting Queen's performance at Nelson Mandela's birthday concert.
Starpulse News (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Queen guitarist Brian May has hit out a British TV network for not broadcasting the group's performance at Nelson Mandela's recent 90th birthday concert in London.[...] Read more!
No Rock & Roll Fun (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Brian May - a man who has the hump so often he could go on as Quasimodo without make-up - is annoyed that ITV didn't treat the not-quite-Queen set at Nelson Mandela's birthday show with the respect he thinks it deserved. (Key words here are "he thinks", of course.) "It baffles me how, given the privilege of televising an internationally significant event, a TV company can miss the point so badly. "All...
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 07/01/2008
The fourth single from and eighth track on the British rock group Queen's 1976 album A Day at the Races, written by Freddie Mercury. It was one of several British music hall-inspired songs written by both Mercury and Brian May that appeared on other Queen albums from the 1970s. The song starts with a piano and vocal introduction by Mercury, then continues, with the bass and drums adding on, at the...
The Health Care Blog (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
My favorite rock guitarist of all time, Brian May never quite finished his PhD in Astronomy before going off and becoming a big star with Queen. But this year, he finally did. Here's an interview with him in the Los...
RubyTooth.com (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
1991 song written by Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor as a tribute to Led Zeppelin. The music was started off by Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon jamming in the studio in Montreux. From then on Freddie Mercury composed the song and added the long interlude. The melody is Mercury's as well. Lyrics were started off by Mercury but completed by drummer Roger Taylor. The orchestra in the middle part...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Brian May, lead guitarist for Queen and the author of the stadium anthem "We Will Rock You," was awarded his PhD this year in astrophysics from Imperial College London. Now, his first book, "Bang! The Complete History of the Universe," written with astronomer Sir Patrick Moore and astrophysicist Chris Lintott, is being released in the U.S.The book, inspired by physicist Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History...
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
LATEST: BLACK SABBATH guitarist TONY IOMMI and JETHRO TULL frontman IAN ANDERSON have helped to save British radio station Planet Rock from closure. The digital station faced being shut down last month (May08) unless parent company Gcap media found a suitable buyer. Queen guitarist Brian May had expressed interest in purchasing the beleaguered station, but it was [...]
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Brian May 'shocked and disappointed' to discover that GCap had sold the digital radio station without informing him of the change of plans
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
QUEEN are heading back to South America for the first time in 27 years after reportedly scheduling two dates in Argentina. Brian May and Roger Taylor will return to Buenos Aires in November (08) for two concerts at the Estadio Velez Sarsfield, according to website Queenzone.com. Fronted by rock veteran Paul Rodgers, the new-look band is also [...]
The Liberty Zone (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
Driving my Redhead back from jiu jitsu, putting on Queen's greatest hits in the car, and singing and clapping along to "We Will Rock You." Also having the little 10 year old agree that Brian May is one of the greatest guitarists ever... Just sayin'
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
QUEEN stars BRIAN MAY and ROGER TAYLOR joined the FOO FIGHTERS’ TAYLOR HAWKINS on a tribute to late THE BEACH BOYS drummer DENNIS WILSON. Drummer Hawkins was drafted in to provide vocals on Holy Man, which will feature on an updated version of Wilson's 1977 acclaimed solo album Pacific Ocean Blue. And Hawkins has been joined by [...]
