Brian May
With a musical career spanning four decades, Queen founding member Brian May is a world-renowned guitarist and songwriter, with production and performance credits on recordings that have sold in excess of 100-million copies worldwide.
Brian has penned 22 worldwide hits for Queen, among them the anthems We Will Rock You, The Show Must Go On and I Want It All, and powerful ballads, including Who Wants To Live Forever, No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young) and Save Me. May’s solo recordings include the albums Back To The Light (1992), featuring Too Much Love Will Kill You and Driven By You, both Ivor Novello Award winners, and 1998’s Another World.
After singer Freddie Mercury’s death, the surviving members of Queen set up a charity to support AIDS relief, the Mercury Phoenix Trust. The MPT has to date channelled more than £8-million to over 1 000 AIDS projects around the world. An ongoing commitment to AIDS awareness led Queen to become a driving force in the 46664 campaign for the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The first of a series of 46664 concerts, held in Cape Town in November 2003, was broadcast worldwide via TV, Internet and radio, becoming the most widely distributed media event in history, with an audience of over 2-billion in 166 countries. May continues in his role as an ambassador and participant in the 46664 international concert series aimed at promoting AIDS awareness worldwide.
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