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Brian May
Hampton, Middlesex, England, UK
Brian Harold May (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and astrophysicist. He is the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. He was the c…
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Brian Harold May (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and astrophysicist. He is the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. He was the co-founder of Queen with lead singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor, having previously performed with Taylor in the band Smile, and bass player John Deacon. As a member of Queen, he became regarded as a virtuoso musician and he was identified with a distinctive sound created through his layered guitar work, often using a home-built electric guitar called the Red Special. He has a short cameo in Queen's biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody (2018).
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2025
Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World
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2024
Katy Perry: Night of a Lifetime
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2024
Andrea Bocelli 30: The Celebration
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2024
Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me
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2024
The Rory Gallagher Story
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2024
Rory Gallagher: Calling Card
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2024
60 Songs: BBC Two at 60
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2024
Queen Rock Montreal
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2023
Zucchero | Sugar Fornaciari
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2023
Rock: the origin
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2022
Meat Loaf - A Celebration Of Life
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2022
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert
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2022
Rhapsody Over London
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2022
ABBA V Queen
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2022
Platinum Party at the Palace
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2022
Freddie Mercury: The Final Act
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2021
Queen at the BBC
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2020
Die Helene Fischer Show - Meine schönsten Momente
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2020
Queen: The Band that Rocked the World
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2020
Queen + Adam Lambert: Live Around The World
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2020
Queen + Adam Lambert: Tour Watch Party
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2020
The Shadows At Sixty
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2020
Reunited Apart
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2020
We are the Champions - 50 Jahre Queen
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2020
Queen + Adam Lambert: Fire Fight Australia
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2020
Newscast
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2019
13 Moments That Made Freddie Mercury and Queen
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2019
The Day We Walked on the Moon
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2019
Liam Gallagher: As It Was
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2019
The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
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2019
Bohemian Rhapsody: Recreating Live Aid
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