A young Brian May playing the brand new Red Special. Note the disk magnets of the original handmade pickups It was the early 1960’s and a young teenaged Brian May wanted an electric guitar.

Impressively, May and his father even originally built the guitar's pickups ... to create Red Special replicas for the wider market. Eventually though, May created his own firm, Brian May Guitars ...

Brian May has revealed that he has spoken with ... Seymour Duncan provided the replica Burns Tri-Sonic pickups of May’s original b build. The Burns Red Special later made its debut in 2001. May ...

Brian May and his Red Special electric guitar are inseparable, and across his career the Queen legend has used the humble DIY build to cement his status as a bona fide rock legend. But that doesn ...

A young Brian May playing the brand new Red Special. Note the disk magnets of the original handmade pickups It was the early 1960’s and a young teenaged Brian May wanted an electric guitar.

Three pickups may not be that unusual but two sets of switches certainly are (white here, same colour as on Brian's red special); the higher placed set turns the pickup on/off and the lower set is for ...

After announcing their unexpected partnership early last year, Gibson and Brian May have unveiled their first collaborative signature guitar creation – and it’s not a Murphy Lab Red Special.

For anyone who wants to know more, the star also published a book, Brian May's Red Special: The Story of the Home-made Guitar that Rocked Queen and the World ...

Following the success of Bohemian Rhapsody in 2018, Japanese watchmaker Seiko partnered up with Queen guitarist Brian May ... black and red dial, inspired by May’s “Red Special” guitar ...