Credit: Larry Marano/Getty Images Freddie Mercury may hold the record ... “I did that on the guitar, which I can't play for nuts, and in one way it was quite a good thing because I was ...

Credit: Phil Dent/Redferns Brian May says he and singer Freddie Mercury disagreed about putting a guitar solo solo on a classic Queen track, and that it only happened because the guitarist stood ...

Freddie Mercury loved playing guitar in his home and rarely on stage. “He was very good on the guitar, very unorthodox – all downstrokes,” May said in an interview with Guitar World in 2019.

Queen guitarist May shared an old photo to Instagram of Mercury playing the guitar. In the caption, the 76-year-old said that he’d been “inescapably thinking so much about Freddie in these ...

Queen stood out from their peers for their willingness to try any musical style. "Killer Queen" set them on that path.

Alongside a nostalgic snapshot of Mercury playing Brian's self-built Red Special guitar, May shared an emotional homage: "Inescapably thinking so much about Freddie in these strange days.

For many rock fans, Freddie Mercury is the end all be all musician ... He changed the face of guitar playing forever. His influence rages on today. Mercury is much the same.

There were photos of a young, energized Mick Jagger playing guitar at the mic, and Freddie Mercury singing so passionately you can see his spit flying into the microphone. Images of the Who's Pete ...