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Long-term badger cull plan dropped amid legal challenge but thousands still to be killed this year

Exclusive: Government legal document shows minister scrapped proposal on day Brian May film showed how one farm defeated bTB

The Independent UK

“I don’t think we’re a band that will last forever. We could break up any time”: On the road with Thin Lizzy in America in the late 1970s

Thin Lizzy hit their stride between 1977 and 1979 – and journalist Harry Doherty had a front row seat for their American tours

Louder

Brian May: The Badgers, the Farmers and Me review – the Queen star could save so many animals’ lives

May’s four-year experiment into whether badgers actually need to be culled is eye-opening stuff – but he’s so gently spoken that astonishing facts slip by almost unnoticed

The Guardian - UK

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Shocking badger cull film on BBC will prompt anger like Post Office scandal drama, claims Queen star Brian May

‘Dynamite’ claims come two days after government performed U-turn on election pledge to stop killing native mammal

The Independent UK

TV tonight: Daisy May Cooper, Russell Howard and more take Jimmy Carr’s ultimate telly quiz

Nigella’s ‘meecro-wah-vey’ and a Bake Off controversy are just some of the topics covered. Plus: Brian May goes to battle for badgers. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

“Brian May is my main influence for writing guitar parts. I like how melodic and catchy his playing is. It’s not trying to show off”: The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts on bringing jazz into pop, and how St. Vincent shaped her playing (and her gear)

Her band has the biggest-selling debut album in nearly a decade in her native UK, and secured tours with Hozier and Florence & The Machine. Guitarist Emily Roberts explains how her background in jazz, theater and a Queen tribute band inspired her evocative playing style

Guitar World

"Imagine how much money is being made here": Brian May slams the Countryside Alliance for criticising his badger culling documentary

The Queen guitarist has reacted after complaints to the BBC about his film, scheduled to be broadcast this week

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"The thought of being in jail in tights didn't appeal to Freddie at all": Queen and the struggle to make Day At The Races

After A Night At The Opera, Queen had the world at their feet. But how on Earth do you follow such an album?

Louder

"I now realise that to save the badgers, you have to save everybody": Brian May to host new BBC show The Badgers, The Farmers And Me

Brian May's show highlights the Queen guitarist's four-year battle to rid a farm of bovine tuberculosis without harming badgers

Louder

Brian May hits out at ‘morally indefensible’ badger cull

Queen musician compared practice to witches being burned at the stake

The Independent UK

“If I wanted to have a string sound, I had to change, unload and reload while I was playing, and that led to all kinds of problems”: Queen live keyboard player Spike Edney on ‘80s tech, streamlining his rig and using Freddie Mercury vocal samples

“I suppose what I think is that Queen is quite a demanding musical adventure, and there are lots of things that can be done to make their sounds more realistic for the audience,” he says

MusicRadar

Stars from across the world of rock pay tribute to Aerosmith after the iconic band announced their retirement from touring

Brian May, Slash, Sammy Hagar and more hail Aerosmith's legacy as Steven Tyler's vocal cord injury leads to retirement

Metal Hammer

“I don’t play flamenco at all – I just fake it on an acoustic with a guitar pick. But I’ve always loved that tonality”: Jake Dreyer might not be referencing Paco de Lucía on Witherfall’s new album – but he is thinking what Brian May might do

Sounds of the Forgotten is Witherfall at their best: musically ambitious, virtuosity swinging for the fences, and it came together by Dreyer chasing vibes and taking melodic metal bigger

Guitar World

"When it comes down to chords, we don’t often spend much time talking about Brian May – until now": learn 4 from his Queen classics

A crazy little thing called Dsus4

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Evening Standard

Princess Kate reveals to Adam Lambert that son George loves Queen after Jubilee performance

George is particularly fond of ‘We are the Champions’

Louder

"The songs are not fossils. They're alive and evolving": Brian May says Adam Lambert is taking Queen's songs to places Freddie Mercury never did

Queen's Brian May talks to Sammy Hagar about Freddie Mercury, Adam Lambert, and curating Queen's legacy

Guitar World

“Even when Freddie was nothing and nobody, he was Jimi Hendrix in his mind. And I enabled him to have that at his fingertips”: Brian May on his symbiotic songwriting relationship with Freddie Mercury – and the guitar innovations he never got credit for

The Queen guitar legend shares memories and spills secrets in this epic interview, dishing on what form his Gibson-made guitar might take – and the unlikely tale behind his new collaboration with Steve Cropper and Billy Gibbons

The Independent UK

Ted Lasso star at Silverstone to watch on-screen love interest Hannah Waddingham sing national anthem

Toheeb Jimoh, Mike Tindall and David Walliams were among those to praise Waddingham’s performance

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“The pictures show a man of great power and presence, as befits a giant riffmeister.” Queen's Brian May pays tribute to his friend Tony Iommi, as Black Sabbath's guitarist unveils career-spanning photo book

Tony Iommi and celebrated photographer Ross Halfin announce book collaboration

Louder

“Britain is ALREADY WRECKED! How could things get any worse?” Queen's Brian May urges the UK electorate to vote for “change” at Britain's General Election on July 4

Queen guitarist Brian May wants to see an end to “arrogance, ineptitude and corruption” in the British government

The Independent UK

Kasabian rock out on their new album Happenings

The Streets and 10cc’s Graham Gouldman are also among those releasing new music this week.

Guitar World

“It wasn’t a conscious decision to invent our own scale! The idea was to do something inspired by Jeff Buckley... but we added a mandolin”: The Last Dinner Party’s Emily Roberts is the jazz schooled Queen-inspired indie guitar hero you’ve been waiting for

Roberts reveals how their hit debut album was created, and how her unique approach to the instrument was shaped by jazz greats and one rock legend in particular…

Guitar World

“Big riff energy is in this kid’s blood – and he might even solo better than his dad…” June 2024 Guitar World editor’s picks

From all-star offspring to returning noise-rock icons, a punk trailblazer’s first album in 53 years and the future of blues, this month had it all

Guitar World

“It’s like guitar heaven”: Brian May turned down the chance to play with Steve Cropper and Billy Gibbons – but when his rejection email was used to write a new song, he had no choice but to take part

The Queen guitarist trades solos with Gibbons on Too Much Stress, the first taste of session legend Cropper’s new record Friendlytown

The Guardian - UK

Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud review – give this compelling singer his own podcast series

The Queen frontman is a rousing interviewer as he celebrates trailblazing artists in queer music history – especially during a tricky chat about Freddie Mercury

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