History Music / BrianMay

* LeadSingerPlaysLeadGuitar: The Music/{{Queen|Band}} lead guitarist took the reigns of lead vocals for his solo career, while still playing awesome solos.

He is also well-known for being a very NiceGuy, friendly and good to work with, and is also a well-known and compassionate animal welfare activist, besides being an astrophysicist (as alluded to above, he has a [=PhD=] in astrophysics). An asteroid is named after him, and he took part in research activities for NASA's ''New Horizons'' probe to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt. He also has an interest in vintage stereophotography, and created stereoscopic imaging to select the landing site of the OSIRIS-REx mission, the first space mission to land on an asteroid and return a sample of it to Earth.

He is also well-known for being a very NiceGuy, friendly and good to work with, and is also a well-known and compassionate animal welfare activist, besides being an astrophysicist (as alluded to above, he has a [=PhD=] in astrophysics). An asteroid is named after him, and he took part in research activities for NASA's ''New Horizons'' probe to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

He is also well-known for being a very NiceGuy, friendly and good to work with, and is also a well-known and compassionate animal welfare activist, besides being an astrophysicist (as alluded to above, he has a [=PhD=] in astrophysics), which all undoubtedly makes him a very CoolOldGuy. An asteroid is named after him, and he took part in research activities for NASA's ''New Horizons'' probe to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

On December 30, 2022, it was announced that he would receive a knighthood for his contributions to music and charity, which was formally bestowed by UsefulNotes/KingCharlesIII on March 14, 2023.

He is also a well known animal welfare activist and astrophysicist (as alluded to above, he has a [=PhD=] in astrophysics). An asteroid is named after him, and he took part in research activities for NASA's ''New Horizons'' probe to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.

* PopStarComposer: Brian wrote the soundtrack to a French movie called ''Furia''. It sounds like he was chained to a copy of Music/JohnWilliams' ''[[Film/ANewHope Star Wars]]'' soundtrack. He also did the soundtrack for ''VideoGame/RiseOfTheRobots''. It was far more epic than the game was. Then there's ''Film/{{Flash Gordon|1980}}''.

On December 30, 2022, it was announced that he would receive a knighthood for his contributions to music and charity, which formally took place on March 14, 2023.

On December 30, 2022, it was announced that he would receive a knighthood for his contributions to music and charity.

* IAmNotSpock: Before happily embracing the Queen name since the late 90's, there was a period of almost a decade when Brian wanted to dissociate himself from the Queen name and brand as much as possible, and he tried to launch a career as a singer. It backfired, as he was still seen as "the guitarist of Queen". When he did a track live where he only sang and didn't play any instruments, the audience's reaction was polite at best; when he played a guitar solo instead, people would overwhelmingly cheer him. He eventually embraced that and gradually returned to being primarily a guitarist, and he's been producing a few singers instead of himself being one (though, to be fair, he still does a lot of backing vocals and the occasional lead).

* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: May dresses up as a penguin in the music video of "I'm Going Slightly Mad".