The English musician – who celebrates his 76th birthday this Wednesday – also expressed his regret for never having collaborated with John Lennon. “I could imagine we got along well,” he said in an interview with The Guardian, where he also spoke of his admiration for Pink, Foo Fighters and Avril Lavigne.
Brian May, one of Queen’s creative souls and one of the most virtuous guitarists of all time, boasts a wide and powerful track record of collaborations with colleagues: Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, Lady Gaga, Diana Ross, Steve Hackett, among others. so much. “I rarely refuse a collaboration “, he recently indicated to The Guardian, a media which summoned him in a special section to answer questions from readers.
Despite his generous resume, on his own, he regrets not having had the chance to team up with a Beatle. “One of the regrets I feel is not having had the opportunity to work with John Lennon (…) I could imagine that we got along well,” he said.
Then he clarified: “The Beatles weren’t always in tune, they were always pulling and pushing, kind of like us in Queen. I think John would have pushed things really hard. You’d have to work really hard to keep up. , to believe his instincts.
When asked which band (regardless of era) he would have liked to be in if Queen had never existed, May returns to the authors of come together . I don’t doubt it for a second: “The Beatles” launched.
“I’m sure it wouldn’t have been easy to be a Beatle, but I would have identified with that incredible level of creativity,” he explained.
The musician and astrophysicist also explained that rewatching the documentary series The Beatles: Return (2021), by Peter Jackson, provoked several thoughts.
“I was a little sad to see the first (chapter) , because it reminded me of us. Sometimes Queen in the studio would say (inhales nervously), “We’re here, and things don’t quite add up.” I felt like they were in a pretty sore place, but in the second (episode), I felt like they really found each other. It’s a manual on how to be in the studio,” he explained of the three-part production available on Disney+.
He also did not miss the opportunity to mention a second group in which he would have liked to play: “If it hadn’t been the Beatles, it could have been Led Zeppelin. If they had let me in.”
And he praised three names born in the 90s and 2000s. “I have CDs in the car that I tend to keep listening to. Pink is one of them. I love it. She is incredible. I listen a lot foo fighters and I like April Lavigne ”.
He was also asked about his experience on the road with Guns N’ Roses. . May had shared the stage with guitarist Slash and singer Axl Rose at the legendary Freddie Mercury tribute concert in April 1992, five months after his death.
After this experience, he joined some dates of the Use your Illusion tour as an opening number, in addition to playing with them on stage. They used to do the arsonist Tie your Mother and the stadium anthem we will Rock Youboth performed during the Mercury tribute, with May taking lead vocals on the first of them.
“They were amazing, a great live band, and they were so nice to me,” May explains. Axl was a Queen fan and was very influenced by what we were doing. Freddie was gone and I was singing and playing my own guitar at the same time, which is difficult. It was a weird feeling, because they were playing these big shows that Queen would have played.”
The mass bath and the permanence of Queen’s repertoire among the people aroused May’s nostalgia. “I remember a big stadium in Türkiye, where I thought, ‘wouldn’t it be great if Queen was here?’, but of course we never will be. I was at peace with that, but a few years later we were playing huge, wonderful, packed venues again.”
And true to its reputation as the most dangerous band in the world, the instrumentalist recalls that being with Guns N’ Roses was a permanent void. “It was a great moment and very dangerous. You never knew what was going to happen, if Guns would take the stage or if Axl [Rose] she would suddenly decide that she couldn’t make it that day. Once they got on stage, it was like an earthquake.”
Approaching his 76th birthday, this Wednesday 19, Brian May has just released the reissue of Star Fleet Project (1983), the album which brings together other musicians like Eddie Van Halen and Alan Gratzer.
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