Brian May's Red Special: The Story of the Home-Made Guitar That Rocked Queen and the World by Brian May

Brian May's Red Special: The Story of the Home-Made Guitar That Rocked Queen and the World by Brian May

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'. 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 played his guitar on every Queen album and in all of Queen's live shows around the world. In this book you will discover everything you ever wished to know about Brian's unique instrument. Brian talks about every aspect of the Red Special, from its birth to playing on the roof of Buckingham Palace, from Live Aid to the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics - and beyond. All of this is accompanied with original diagrams, sketches and notes dating from the building of the guitar, as well as a great selection of photographs including Brian on stage with his guitar, close-ups and x-rays. Additional selling points: - Includes rare and previously unseen photographs of the Red Special, Brian and his father, and Queen. - The guitar has been fully dismantled and every piece is photographed.

Brian May CBE, PhD, ARCS, FRASI is a world-renowned guitarist, songwriter, producer, and performer who was a founding member of Queen. When Queen's popularity first erupted in 1974, Brian was compelled to abandon his doctorate studies at Imperial College London. He has always had a strong interest in astronomy and has been a regular contributor to BBC TV's monthly astronomy program, The Sky at Night, hosted by Sir Patrick Moore. In 2006, he returned to astrophysics research and received his PhD in 2007. He is the Chancellor of John Moores University and a patron of the Mercury Phoenix Trust and the British Bone Marrow Donor Association, among others. Visit Brian's interactive website at www.brianmay.com to contact him and read about astronomy and his ideas on a variety of topics ranging from relativity to rock.

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ISBN 13	9781480341470
ISBN 10	1480341479
Title	Brian May's Red Special: The Story of the Home-Made Guitar That Rocked Queen and the World
Author	Brian May
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Hal Leonard Corporation
Year published	2014-10-01
Number of pages	144
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