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Get the full story behind the Red Special, Brian May's hand-built guitar--a unique instrument that helped make May's musical dreams come true. In 1963, Brian May and his father Harold started to build the Red Special--an electric guitar meant to outperform anything commercially made. Here, Brian talks about of his one-of-a-kind instrument, from its creation on. He played it on every single Queen album and during the band's amazing shows: the roof of Buckingham Palace, Live Aid, the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics . . . and beyond. Along with original diagrams, sketches, and notes, May has included a great selection of photographs of himself with the guitar--which was fully dismantled so it could be shot-- as well as close-ups and X-rays.
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Brian May's Red Special, Brian May, Simon Bradley
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- Released
- 2020
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- Title
- Brian May's Red Special
- Subtitle
- The Story of the Home-made Guitar that Rocked Queen and the World
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Brian May, Simon Bradley
- Publisher
- Welbeck Publishing Group.
- Released
- 2020
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 1787394859
- ISBN13
- 9781787394858
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Art & Culture, True Stories, Biographies, Music Theme, Music, Autobiographies & Memoirs
- Rating
- 4.55 out of 5
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- Get the full story behind the Red Special, Brian May's hand-built guitar--a unique instrument that helped make May's musical dreams come true. In 1963, Brian May and his father Harold started to build the Red Special--an electric guitar meant to outperform anything commercially made. Here, Brian talks about of his one-of-a-kind instrument, from its creation on. He played it on every single Queen album and during the band's amazing shows: the roof of Buckingham Palace, Live Aid, the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics . . . and beyond. Along with original diagrams, sketches, and notes, May has included a great selection of photographs of himself with the guitar--which was fully dismantled so it could be shot-- as well as close-ups and X-rays.