Brian May unveils Red Special guitar finished in the “World’s Pinkest Pink”

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The custom signature model will be auctioned off to raise funds for women’s cancer charities

Brian May has unveiled a signature Red Special guitar finished in the “World’s Pinkest Pink”
(Image credit: Instagram/Brian May)

Brian May has offered numerous variations on his famous Red Special electric guitar, including mini and acoustic models, as well as one emblazoned with Queen’s News of the World album graphics, through his Brian May Guitars line.

But now the Queen main man has introduced a first for his signature model – the Red Special in “World’s Pinkest Pink”.

The new version sports a fluorescent pink powdered paint developed by Stuart Semple, and was created, as May explains in an Instagram post, for May to use for a video for an upcoming charity single, the proceeds of which will go to a pair of women's cancer charities. 

Bri with the world’s first “World’s Pinkest Pink💥” BMG guitar. Specially made by my guys for yesterday’s video shoot. There’s a reason for this ! The track is to be released for the benefit of two great women’s Cancer Charities - and since the music is totally appropriate, I thought the guitar ought to be, too. The release will raise money and I’m also hoping to auction this guitar to raise some extra funds. See you in October ! 💥💥💥💥 There are some interesting stories about this pigment. Try Googling “pinkest pink”. As far as I know, this is truly the first pinkest pink guitar. It has a strange effect on the video cameras - comes out burning hot but not quite how it looks in the room ! Bri - photo by @by_yuval_hen Brian Harold May

A photo posted by @brianmayforreal on Sep 19, 2020 at 9:31pm PDT

May then plans to auction off the World’s Pinkest Pink guitar to raise additional funds.

In the meantime, if you want to try your hand at creating your own World’s Pinkest Pink guitar, you can pick up a 50 gram jar of the stuff at Culture Hustle.

Richard Bienstock
Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.