Brian May

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Chapters: Brian May albums, Brian May songs, Songs written by Brian May, Under Pressure, We Will Rock You, Brian May discography, Red Special, Who Wants to Live Forever, The Show Must Go On, I Want It All, One Vision, Keep Yourself Alive, Fat Bottomed Girls, Back to the Light, Flash, Headlong, Tie Your Mother Down, No-One but You, Star Fleet Project, Thank God It's Christmas, Stone Cold Crazy, Hammer to Fall, Another World, Teo Torriatte, Good Boys, Now I'm Here, Too Much Love Will Kill You, Save Me, Live at the Brixton Academy, Scandal, Las Palabras de Amor, A Village Lost and Found, Furia, It's Late, Let Me Live, Driven by You, Long Away, 52665 Brianmay, Last Horizon. Excerpt: Brian Harold May, CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician and astrophysicist most widely known as the guitarist and a songwriter of the rock band Queen. As a guitarist he uses his home-built guitar, "Red Special", and has composed hits such as "Now I'm Here", "Tie Your Mother Down", "We Will Rock You", "Who Wants to Live Forever", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "I Want It All" and "Too Much Love Will Kill You". He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for "services to the music industry". May earned a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College in 2007 and is currently the Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University. May lives in Surrey. In 2005, a Planet Rock poll saw May voted the 7th greatest guitarist of all time. He was ranked 39th in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Brian May, the only child of Harold and Ruth May, was born in Hampton, London and attended Hampton Grammar School (now Hampton School). During this time he formed his first band with vocalist and bassist Tim Staffell, named Nineteen Eighty-Four after George Orwell's novel of the same name. He left Hampton Grammar School with ten GCE Ordinary Levels and three Advanced Levels in Physics, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics. May's father Harold worked as a draughtsman at the Ministry of Aviation and had been a long-time cigarette-smoker. As a result, May dislikes smoking, even to the point where he has prohibited smoking indoors at his more recent concerts. From 1974 to 1988, May was married to Chrissie Mullen, who is the mother of his three children: Jimmy, who was born on 15 June 1978; Louisa, who was born on 22 May 1981 and Emily Ruth, who was born on 17 February 1987. Chrissie and Brian separated in 1988. He has stated in interviews that he suffered from depression in the late 1980s, even to the point of contemplating suicide, for reasons having to do with his troubled first marriage and his perceived fa