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Brian May – the ultimate interview: the Queen legend reflects on his career highs and lows, songwriting with Freddie Mercury and 50 years of trailblazing guitar playing
In this career-spanning interview, one of the all-time greatest guitar players talks through every era of Queen's career, and charts the evolution of rock's most singular band
Arielle reveals why she doesn’t use effects pedals: “If I want to push the boundaries of guitar, it’s not going to be by using a pedal”
The Brian May Guitars signature artist has explained her less-is-more approach to gear, and revealed how Jeff Beck and Brian May inspired her to ditch the pedals
Brian May Guitars flips the Red Special aesthetic and decks out Arielle’s signature model in metallic Windermere Blue finish
It joins previously released Antique Cherry and Two Tone models, the latter of which recently featured on Arielle's new single, 73
Brian May on how Led Zeppelin inspired Queen: “I owe a lot to Jimmy Page”
The guitar icon said he and his bandmates looked up to Led Zeppelin from a musical and industry perspective, and labelled Page “the master of the riff”
How Brian May broke a golden guitar recording rule during the tracking of Queen's debut album
The guitarist talks disrupting conventional approaches to recording in the early '70s in a new interview with Total Guitar
The 100 greatest guitarists of all time
A comprehensive rundown of the best guitarists of all time, featuring the trailblazers, the early innovators, the best jazz, rock, indie, blues, metal and acoustic players – and the top guitarists around today...
Brian May pays tribute to Jeff Beck: “He was so unique, and so influential on every guitarist I've ever met in my life”
The Queen guitarist praised “one of the greatest guitar geniuses the world has ever seen” in a heartfelt video on social media – and named the Beck song he considers “possibly the most beautiful bit of guitar music ever recorded”
Brian May: “The Face It Alone solo is very much in the moment. It’s me trying to be a voice next to Freddie's”
May reveals the story behind Queen’s ‘lost’ classic – and the epic guitar solo he created for it
Krist Novoselic: “The bass got caught in the TV lights – and then boom!”
At the 1992 MTV Awards, Nirvana bassman Krist Novoselic threw his Gibson 25 feet in the air, forgetting it would come down again shortly afterwards
Brian May on unearthing an unreleased Freddie Mercury track and how The Beatles: Get Back inspired the reissue of Queen's 1989 album The Miracle
May dubs it “Queen's most cohesive album of the '80s” – here, he explains why the rock legends chose to reissue The Miracle some 33 years after its original release with a massive boxset featuring lost tracks, outtakes, live cuts and loads more
