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Brian May's Red Special: Inside the iconic guitar of the legendary Queen guitarist

Brian May's Red Special: Inside the iconic guitar of the legendary Queen guitarist

by SimonBradley (Author), Brian May (Author)

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    Hardcover 2014

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Synopsis

Brian May and his father Harold started to hand-build an electric guitar in 1963. Brian dreamed of a guitar that would outperform any of the existing commercially-made electric guitars; his father had the technical knowledge and skills to help make the dream come true. Brian has played his guitar on every Queen album and in Queen's live shows around the world, from the roof of Buckingham Palace to the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics.

My dad and I decided to make an electric guitar. I designed an instrument from scratch, with the intention that it would have a capability beyond anything that was out there, more tunable, with a greater range of pitches and sounds, with a better tremolo, and with a capability of feeding back through the air in a 'good' way'.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 144
 Edition: 01
 Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd
Published: 01 Oct 2014
ISBN 10: 1780972768
ISBN 13: 9781780972763

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Exceptional in its scope, Brian May's Red Special is the definitive history of the remarkable instrument with which the Queen legend made his name.

Guitarist magazine

Author Bio
Although best known to the world as the lead guitarist of supergroup Queen, Brian May has a PhD in astrophysics and is an expert in 3D photography. He co-wrote Bang! The Complete History of the Universe with Chris Lintott and Patrick Moore, A Village Lost and Found with Elena Vidal and Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell with Denis Pellerin and Paula Fleming. Simon Bradley has been a guitar journalist since 1996 and he has written hundreds of articles and interviews on all aspects of the instrument, for many magazines and websites including Guitarist, Total Guitar, What Guitar?, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Future Music, MusicRadar.com, Brianmay.com, and many more.