Brian May

Brian Harold May is the guitarist in Queen

his songwriting skills
Brian has wrote 22 worldwide hits for Queen (that is just the hits, imagine how many songs he has wrote) such as we will rock you, the show must go on and fat bottomed girls. powerful ballads including Who Wants to Live Forever, No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young) and Save Me.

His other accomplishments
Brian has a PHD in astrophysics, is a animal rights activist and has collaborated with Cliff Richard,Diana Ross,Robbie Williams and more

in movies and theater
An interest in film scoring developed when Queen became the first rock group to score a major film, Flash Gordon, featuring the hit Flash! penned by Brian. This was followed by definitive music for Highlander. Brian later contributed a mini-opera for Steve Baron’s 1996 Pinocchio, and composed a complete film soundtrack for the 1999 French art film Furia.

the iconic red special guitar
this guitar doesn't really need an introduction, Brian built it with his father at the age of 16.

he still uses the red special to this day

other facts
in i want to break free, he was portraying Hilda Ogyden from coronation street

he helped with the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

he also created the Mercury phoenix trust, which is a charity that helps raise money for life changing research into the AIDS disease, Roger also helped the charity.

Brian is a vegetarian!