Brian May ❓

Born on July 19, 1947 in Hampton Hill, in the London borough of Richmond upon Thames. He is the only son of Harold May and Ruth Irving Fletcher (of Scottish origin). His father was an electronic engineer, born in London, who served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, and his mother was Scottish, serving in the Women's Royal Air Force. Since he was a child, Brian showed great interest in music and astronomy. He began playing the ukulele, an instrument that his father played very well. At the age of seven he received his first acoustic guitar as a gift. His father was a smoker for a long time. As a consequence, May hates tobacco, to the point of banning it at his most recent concerts. He was a student at Hampton School, where he earned high grades in physics and mathematics. During his studies, he met Tim Staffel, with whom he formed his first band, 1984, based on George Orwell's novel of the same name. He was married to Chrissie Mullen from 1974 to 1988. With her he had three children: Jimmy (born June 15, 1978), Louisa (born May 22, 1981), and Emily Ruth (born February 17, 1981). 1987). After divorcing Chrissie in 1988, he began a relationship with actress Anita Dobson. After twelve years, they married in 2000. He suffered from severe depression in the late 1980s and early 1990s, to the point of contemplating suicide due to his troubled first marriage, feeling like a failure as a husband and father, due to the death of his father and the illness and death of Freddie Mercury. In May 2020, he suffered a buttock injury followed by a heart attack and required the insertion of three stents in three blocked arteries. In December 2022, he received a knighthood from King Charles III of the United Kingdom, now officially his name is Sir Brian Harold May.

In 1968, while studying at the Imperial College, he formed the band Smile with his classmate Tim Staffel as singer and bassist. After leaving several advertisements at the university requesting a drummer, Roger Taylor would join them. After two years, Staffel left the band in 1970 with a repertoire of only nine songs. Finally, as a vocalist they were joined by a young man named Farrokh Bulsara, who had declared himself a fan. On December 22, 1992, during a concert by Roger's band The Cross, Smile reunited to perform 2 songs: "Earth" and "If I Were A Carpenter". In 1970, after incorporating Farrokh Bulsara, now Freddie Mercury, they named the band Queen. After going through several bassists, they began looking for a permanent one, and that's how they met John Deacon. After an audition, Deacon was brought into the band in March 1971. Together with Mercury they were Queen's main songwriters. May composed songs for all of the band's albums and several of the band's worldwide hits, including "We Will Rock You," "Tie Your Mother Down," "Fat Bottomed Girls," "Keep Yourself Alive," "Who Wants to Live Forever?" ", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me", "I Want it All", "The Show Must Go On" and "No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)". As a singer in the band he served on songs such as "Some Day One Day", "She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettos)", "'39", "Good Company", "Long Away", "Sail Away Sweet Sister (To The Sister I Never Had)" , "All Dead All Dead", Leaving Home Ain't Easy", "Sleeping On The Sidewalk", "Who Wants to Live Forever?", "I Want it All", 'Lost Opportunity', "Let Me Live ", and "No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)". From 2005 to 2009, Brian worked on the post-Queen project, Queen + Paul Rodgers, which paired May and Taylor with former Free and Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers. With this band they made a successful tour called "The Return of The Champions" in 2005. On September 15, 2008, the prime album went on sale

Another World. In 1999 he composed the soundtrack for the film "Fury", and in 2000 the album for it was released. In 2006 he performed with McFly on the songs "Do n't Stop Me Now" and "5 Colors in Her Hair" during the Motion in The Ocean Tour. In that same year, May collaborated in the recording of the debut album of Spanish artist Momo Cortés (Constante Contradicción). Specifically for the song "So much love is no good", a Spanish adaptation made by the Spanish artist of May's own classic "Too Much Love Will Kill You". May has collaborated extensively with singer and musical actress Kerry Ellis, whom he met after she was selected to play one of the lead roles in the play We Will Rock You. He has produced on Ellis' first EP; Wicked in Rock, released in 2008. He also produced and performed all the instruments and vocals on Ellis' first album; Anthems released in 2010. Since then, he began appearing in most of Ellis' performances. In May 2011, May began a tour, called "Anthems Tour" throughout the United Kingdom with Kerry Ellis in which they performed both songs from the singer's latest album and well-known Queen songs. The tour began on May 1, 2011 at the Royal Albert Hall in London in a double performance and ended in the English city of Cranwell on July 16, 2011, passing through several cities and towns throughout Great Britain. More recently, May collaborated playing guitar on the single "Yoü and I", by New York singer Lady Gaga, from the album Born This Way. On August 28, 2011, he performed the song alongside the singer (as her male alter ego Jo Calderone), at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards, at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. On August 26, 2011 he performed "We Will Rock You" and "Welcome to the Black Parade" with the band My Chemical Romance at the Reading Festival in the United Kingdom. On January 1, 2019, his

song “New Horizons” was released, in honor of NASA's New Horizons mission, of which he is a part.