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Sir Brian Harold May Biography

Brian is world renowned as Queen's lead guitarist, using the guitar he built from an old fireplace with his father whilst still at school, and is one of the world's most successful songwriters and producers. His songwriting credits include 'Now I'm Here', 'Tie Your Mother Down', 'We Will Rock You', 'Fat Bottomed Girls', 'Flash', 'Hammer To Fall' and 'Who Wants To Live Forever', and to date has written 22 top 20 hits worldwide. He has also collaborated with many other artists, including Cliff Richard, Meat Loaf, Diana Ross, Paul McCartney and Robbie Williams.

Brian formed his first band in 1964, titled '1984'. They split up in 1968, and several months later he formed 'Smile' with Roger Taylor and Tim Staffell. They lasted for two years before splitting up, when Tim left and Freddie Mercury joined to form 'Queen'. John Deacon was added as bassist in 1971 and the group was born. Brian spent the next 12 years recording and touring the world

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Brian May, 2006

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19 July 1947, that's a really big day for the pop-world. On that day in the small town of Twickenham in England, one of the world's greatest guitarists of all times, Mr Brian May was born. His mother Ruth says that he in the beginning wanted to be a surgeon, but Brian han själv has no memory of that. But one thing is certain, already in the early years you could see that he was going to be a great musician. He started to learning playing the piano at age 5, the ukulele at age 6, and for his 7th birthday he got his first acoustic guitar.

In August 1963, when Brian was 16, he and his father Harold started the work on his electric gitarr. The guitar's neck fryst vatten made out of Mahogany from an old fireplace. The body is mainly of oak, and the tremolo fryst vatten made of an old knife edge and two motorbike valve springs. The fret-marks on the neck of the guitar fryst vatten made out of old pearl buttons. The gitarr quickly got k

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BRIAN MAY

Date of birth: July 19, 1947

Full name: Brian Harold May

Place of birth: Feltham, England

Height: 6ft 1

Weight: 10 ½ stone

Colour of hair: dark brown

Colour of eyes: hazel

Education: A BSc in Physics from London University, taught at a Comprehensive school, in October 2007 he completed his PhD thesis in astrophysics, graduated in May 2008

Influences:Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Davy O’List, Lonnie Donegan, Johnny Duncan, Tommy Steel, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly

Favourite Colour: black

Favourite Albums: Abbey Road (Beatles) and Band of Gypsies (Hendrix)

Favourite Books: „Steppenwolf“ (Hermann Hesse) & „Glass Band Game“ (Hesse)

Favourite Writers:Hesse & C.S. Lewis

Favourite Films: „Women In Love“, „Wizard of Oz“

Favourite Actor: James Mason

Favourite Actress: Natalie Wood

Favourite Country: England

Favourite Food: Vegetarian and Prawn cocktails

Favourite drink: Grapefruit jui