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Queen
Queen
British rock band (1970-)
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Adam Lambert
Adam Lambert
American singer, songwriter
2
Roger Taylor
Roger Taylor
English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
3
Spike Edney
Spike Edney
English keyboard player
4
John Deacon
John Deacon
English musician, guitarist, songwriter
5
Strawbs
Strawbs
English rock band
6
Allison Iraheta
Allison Iraheta
singer, musician
7
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury
British singer, songwriter, record producer and graphic designer (1946-1991)
8
Maroon 5
Maroon 5
American pop rock band
9
Extreme
Extreme
American rock band
10
Slash
Slash
British-American musician
11
Matt Bellamy
Matt Bellamy
English singer-songwriter
12
Muse
Muse
English rock band
13
Guns N’ Roses
Guns N’ Roses
American hard rock band
14
Def Leppard
Def Leppard
British rock band
15
Miranda Lambert
Miranda Lambert
American country music singer
16
Tool
Tool
American rock band
17
Jonny Greenwood
Jonny Greenwood
British musician
18
The Darkness
The Darkness
British Band
19
Wolfmother
Wolfmother
Australian hard rock band
20
AC/DC
AC/DC
Australian hard rock band
21
Filter
Filter
American rock band
22
Mac DeMarco
Mac DeMarco
Canadian musician
23
The War on Drugs
The War on Drugs
American indie rock band
24
The Gaslight Anthem
The Gaslight Anthem
American rock band
25
Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters
American rock band, formed in Seattle in 1994
26
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
American rock singer, songwriter and musician
27
La Dispute
La Dispute
American post-hardcore band
28
Creed
Creed
American rock band
29
Big Wreck
Big Wreck
band
30
Joe Satriani
Joe Satriani
American musician
31
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys
American hip hop band
32
U2
U2
Irish rock band
33
Thrice
Thrice
American rock band from Irvine, California, formed in 1998
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Silversun Pickups
Silversun Pickups
American rock band
35
Crazy Town
Crazy Town
American rap rock band
36
Hillsong United
Hillsong United
Australian worship band
37
Heart
Heart
American rock band
38
Billy Corgan
Billy Corgan
American musician, songwriter, producer, and author
39
Parkway Drive
Parkway Drive
Australian metalcore band
40
Adam Levine
Adam Levine
American singer-songwriter, actor and record producer
41
Korn
Korn
American nu metal band
42
Candlebox
Candlebox
band
43
Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage
American metalcore band
44
Tim Staffell
Tim Staffell
English rock musician
45
Phil Rudd
Phil Rudd
Australian drummer
46
The Who
The Who
English rock band
47
Buzz Osborne
Buzz Osborne
American singer, guitarist and producer
48
Three Days Grace
Three Days Grace
rock band
49
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins
American alternative rock band
50
Train
Train
American pop rock band
51
Bring Me the Horizon
Bring Me the Horizon
British rock band
52
Gary Moore
Gary Moore
Northern Ireland guitarist, songwriter and record producer
53
Daughtry
Daughtry
American rock band
54
Weezer
Weezer
alternative rock band from the United States
55
Metallica
Metallica
American heavy metal band
56
Brian James
Brian James
English punk rock guitarist, songwriter
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Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains
American grunge band
Intro
English musician and astrophysicist
Awards Received
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Order of the Badge of Honour
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Audience Award for Most Popular Show
honorary doctor of the University of Exeter
honorary doctor of the University of Hertfordshire
News
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Queen

Queen

Rock Aid Armenia

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The Brian May Band

The Brian May Band

Brian Harold May CBE (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, author, astrophysicist, and university administrator. He is the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen.

May was a co-founder of Queen with lead singer Freddie Mercury and drummer Roger Taylor. May previously performed with Taylor in the band Smile, which he had joined while he was at university. Within five years of their formation in 1970 (bass player John Deacon joined to complete the line-up in 1971), Queen had become one of the biggest rock bands in the world with the success of the album A Night at the Opera and its single "Bohemian Rhapsody". From the mid-1970s until the early 1990s, Queen was constantly in the UK charts and played at some of the biggest venues in the world, including at Live Aid in 1985. As a member of Queen, May became regarded as a virtuoso musician. He was identified with a distinctive sound created through his layered guitar work, often using a home-built electric guitar called the Red Special. May wrote numerous hits for Queen, including "We Will Rock You", "I Want It All", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "Flash", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me", "Who Wants to Live Forever", "Too Much Love Will Kill You", and "The Show Must Go On".

Following the death of Mercury in 1991, aside from the 1992 tribute concert, the release of Made in Heaven (1995) and the 1997 tribute single to Mercury, "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" (written by May), Queen were put on hiatus for several years but were eventually reconvened by May and Taylor for further performances featuring other vocalists. In 2005, a Planet Rock poll saw May voted the seventh-greatest guitarist of all time. He was ranked at No. 26 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". In 2012, he was ranked the second-greatest guitarist in a Guitar World magazine readers poll. In 2001, May was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Queen and in 2018 the band received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

May was appointed a CBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005 for "services to the music industry and for charity work". May earned a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London in 2007, and was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 2008 to 2013. He was a "science team collaborator" with NASA's New Horizons Pluto mission. He is also a co-founder of the awareness campaign Asteroid Day. Asteroid 52665 Brianmay was named after him. May is also an animal rights activist, campaigning against the hunting of foxes and the culling of badgers in the UK.