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Brian May reveals the Queen album that wasn't 'well received' by rock fans

Sir Brian May has revealed the Queen album he loves that wasn't well received by all.

BANG Premier · Nov 8, 2025

He Wrote 'Another One Bites the Dust'—Then Quit Forever: Inside the Disappearing Act of Queen's John Deacon

John Deacon, Queen's bassist and songwriter behind hits like 'Another One Bites the Dust,' quietly withdrew from music and public life at 46 and has lived privately with his family ever since.

International Business Times UK · Nov 8, 2025

“On a guitar, it's built so weird with that one string in the wrong position, and so everybody plays the same crap all the time”: Phish's Trey Anastasio thinks all guitar music sounds the same – so he radically switched up his songwriting process

Anastasio says that, in an effort to push compositional boundaries, he writes a lot of his guitar parts on piano

Guitar World · Nov 3, 2025

"Proud to call this infinitely modest and generous genius my friend": Brian May shares video of surprise Tony Iommi appearance at Black Sabbath ballet

Iommi took to the stage at the climax of a performance of Black Sabbath - The Ballet

Metal Hammer · Oct 24, 2025

“People have a hard time understanding how unsurprising Bohemian Rhapsody was to us”: These are the two early Queen songs that Brian May says paved the way for Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody didn’t appear out of nowhere

Louder · Oct 19, 2025

“Jimmy Page would be nice to have on there”: Dweezil Zappa has already tapped Eddie Van Halen, Brian May and Yngwie Malmsteen for his ambitious instrumental project – but wants to recruit a few more guitar greats before it’s finished

Albert Lee, Steve Morse and Steve Vai have also recorded for What The Hell Was I Thinking?, which Zappa began work on back in 1989

Guitar World · Oct 16, 2025

“I said, 'Fred, I don't know if this is going to be possible to sing,' And he went, 'I'll do it, darling’ - downed a vodka, and went in and killed it”: How Freddie Mercury took on death itself for Queen’s majestic final single

It was sadly to be Freddie’s last single with Queen before he passed away just six weeks after its release

MusicRadar · Oct 16, 2025

“It’s light-hearted, sexually ambiguous – I love it!” Justin Hawkins chooses the 10 best Queen songs you might have missed

Cat suits, mega-mullets and time travel: The Darkness frontman on Queen’s deepest cuts

Louder · Oct 14, 2025

“You’d get the chart positions. ‘Oh, we're Number One again!’ It almost got boring after a while”: Brian May and Roger Taylor recall the making of Queen’s masterpiece A Night At The Opera

“People have a hard time understanding how unsurprising Bohemian Rhapsody was to us," May says

MusicRadar · Oct 10, 2025

A Night At The Opera: 50 years on, Brian May and Roger Taylor on Queen's operatic masterpiece - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Heart, Scorpions, Eric Gales, Creeper, Tom Petty, UFO, David Bowie, Zakk Wylde, Devon Allman, Counting Crows and more

Louder · Oct 10, 2025