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"We like going places where it's a challenge." How Queen helped tear down the Iron Curtain

In July 1986, Queen became the first band to play a stadium show in the communist Eastern Bloc. Cue armed soldiers and genital-related insults

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“I just remember thinking, ‘I can’t play this thing’”: Why Steve Vai struggled to play Brian May’s iconic Red Special

Vai was just a youngster when May invited him to a Queen rehearsal – and offered him the chance to play the legendary six-string

Guitar World

“We paid him very, very well for what he did for us. His dependents became incredibly greedy”: Queen are being sued by the relatives of late photographer Mick Rock, says Brian May

And May and Taylor are at odds over another Queen tour

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“One of the best gigs I've ever been involved in”: Brian May returns to the stage for a fiery three-song cameo with Benson Boone – then hands him the Red Special

The Queen guitarist received a hero’s welcome at the singer’s recent Birmingham show

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Adam Lambert teases new solo era as Queen take a break from the road

Adam Lambert says Queen have no immediate plans to tour, so he's prepping his next solo project.

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“I remember David reaching over to John and saying, ‘No, don’t do it like that’, and John going, ‘Excuse me? I’m the bass player, right? This is how I do it!’”: The tense night David Bowie and Queen spontaneously came up with a classic

When Bowie went for a hang with Queen, a song for the ages was born. But assembling it was fraught with no short supply of pressure

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"Are you a guitarist too?" The day that rock legends Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Brian May and Jeff Beck met the Queen of England

"It doesn’t matter at all that she did not know who we are"

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"I have the power!" Queen's Brian May is working on the soundtrack to the new, long-delayed He-Man movie, featuring Jared Leto as Skeletor

"This movie will make a lot of people smile a lot"

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Anna Sawai thrilled to play Yoko Ono in The Beatles biopic movies

Anna Sawai will play Yoko Ono, the wife of the late John Lennon, in one of four Beatles biopics, directed by Sam Mendes.

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"It was just women and bottles of Jack Daniel's everywhere." The story of the Next Big Thing whose career was killed by a soppy power ballad

Heavy Pettin toured with Ozzy and Mötley Crüe. Then their entry for 1987’s Eurovision misfired and killed their career, and they’ve regretted it ever since. But now they're back and gunning for glory

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"We had the desire to create something extraordinary. And we did." Queen announce remixed, remastered and expanded Queen II Collector’s Edition

"It's not perfect, it has the imperfections and excesses of youth, but I think that was our biggest single step ever"

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“The single biggest leap we ever made. That's when we really started making music the way we wanted to”: Brian May reflects on Queen II, as it's confirmed that the 1974 album is about to get a lavish reissue

Its five CDs will include demos, BBC sessions, outtakes and more

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“It says on the record: ‘No synthesizers’. That’s so cool. And I love Ogre Battle – danga-danga, ‘Waaaaah!’”: Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith names his favourite Queen album

“It has a lot of power, it has wonderful orchestration and incredible playing”

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"Queen's music doesn't belong to Freddie. It doesn't even belong to Queen any more." Writer/comedian Ben Elton reveals why Robert DeNiro's dream of making a musical about Freddie Mercury's life was vetoed by Brian May and Roger Taylor

The story behind the Queen musical that never saw the light of day

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"Iʼm not doing it out of guilt. Even if I didnʼt do it, the poverty would still be there." How getting stuck in a "rut", some tempting by Bob Geldof and the most A-list bill in history helped Queen pull off the greatest rock set of all time

Queen's Live Aid performance has become the stuff of legend – we look back at how the iconic set really happened

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‘America is a dangerous place’: Iconic rock band Queen confirm no US tour possible, nation ‘not what it was’

Another one bites the dust...

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Brian May says US is currently too dangerous for Queen to tour there

Queen guitarist says ‘everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment’ when asked about touring plans

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“America is a dangerous place at the moment… Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment”: Brian May on why Queen won’t tour the US

And Glastonbury is a no-no due to… badgers

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'America is a dangerous place at the moment...' Sir Brian May doesn't think Queen will ever return to the US

Queen guitarist Sir Brian May doesn't think his band will ever perform in America again, because the country “is a dangerous place at the moment”.

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“Our genre was blowing up with Bon Jovi and Motley Crue. So Prince paid for our first demo. Then he saw us live, which he did not like...” Warrant’s Joey Allen saw his own solos re-tracked in front of him – what he did next saved his career

It’s wrongly said he didn’t play on his band’s first two albums. Aware of his “clumsy” approach to solos, he took lessons from the guitarist brought in to speed up the process – and it all came right on their third release

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My cultural awakening: A Queen song helped me break free from communist Cuba

Listening to Brian May’s multi-tracked epic on a battered cassette player when I lived in repressive Havana inspired lit a spark of rebellion inside me

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“Yo, is that a bike or a guitar?”: Brian May-approved Mexican guitar builders, Olmos Guitarras, team up with fast-rising LA band for a shreddable bike

The bike guitar has gone viral on social media, and it’s easy to see why...

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“Heard on recordings by icons like Rory Gallagher, Brian May, and Marc Bolan, this pairing helped define the sound of rock’s formative years”: Vox unveils “re-engineered” treble booster with all the tone and none of the inconsistency of vintage units

NAMM 2026: Vox's VTB-1 Treble Booster in inspired by vintage Rangemaster units but remixes the circuit recipe and promises lower noise and a more robust performance

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"I wouldn’t do Glastonbury because of the politics of the people who run it." Brian May rules out Queen performing at Glastonbury festival for the foreseeable future

Queen at Glasto? Don't hold your breath

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Queen star outlines political disagreements keeping band away from Glastonbury

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