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A
Story from School-Queen |
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Brian Harold May
was born on July 19, 1947, in
Hampton, Middlesex, just outside London. , educated at Hampton
Grammar School in Middlesex. He was winning a scholarship when he was 11
to the top school in his district. trough he's teenage years, he was
fascinated by astronomy. |
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He first
learned to play ukulele-banjo, later he studied the piano . The first
guitar Brian got as a 7-birthday present. . |
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Unable to afford the fender Stratocaster, May set about designing his own guitar with aid of his
father. The
body of the Guitar is solid mahogany, carved from the surround of a
200-year old fireplace. (The price in materials was just 8 pound.) It took
them 2 years.
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He played in various local band,
one was an instrumental group called 1984. At the same time Brian was
study at Imperial College reading physics and infra-red astronomy |
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1967 May place a handwritten note
on college to join him forming a band.. Two lads did so . Tim
Staffell and Roger Taylor. Brian said we think he was then best drummer we
seen ever. The band Smile was born, They only did one single
Earth/Step on me. Later Staffel decided to leave the band. |
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Summer 1969 May take a job,
teaching mathematics at a comprehensive school in London, uncertain whether to pursue his research studies. Determined to continue Brian and
Roger reformed Smile and take in Freddie and John, Smile became the group
Queen. |
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The
Movies |
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Brian developed an interest in
film scoring when Queen became the first rock group to score a major film,
Flash Gordon and later Highlander. Brian providing original music for 1996
screen version of Pinocchio. Year 2000 he wrote the soundtrack for the French movie Furia. |
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Discography |
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- Star Fleet Project 1983
- Back To The Light 1992
- Live At Brixton Academy 1994
- The Amazing Spider-Man (single) 1995
- II Colosso / What Are We Made Of (from the
adventures of Pinocchio) 1996
- Another World 1998
- My Boy (from Lullabies With A Difference)
1998
- Furia (soundtrack) 2000
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The
Brian May Band |
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