This Queen classic featured Brian May playing guitar in an unusual way, something he said he was "bludgeoned" into.

The guitar’s unique inlays are sculpted ... they had to be dismantled and rebuilt. Golder says Brian May and his Red Special ...

Since Queen’s debut album was released in 1973, plenty has been said about Brian May’s guitar tone, and rightly so. Yet, while most look to his handcrafted Red Special guitar, alongside a Vox ...

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.

The small, cutaway-lavished acoustic is built to be a worthy travel companion without limiting the size of its sound ...

Pop superstar Benson Boone continued that tradition by tapping Brian May for a firework ... which he then front-flipped off as May and his Red Special guitar soon rose out of the stage high ...

On the afternoon of February 18, Gibson hosted a special event to launch the Gibson Custom Brian May SJ-200 12-String acoustic guitar and the Garage Feast, a week-long series of events celebrating ...

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 ...

Brian May has recalled how one of his most famous guitar solos almost didn't happen as Freddie Mercury was insistent that it was a "piano song" ...

John Lennon reportedly said the tune spurred him into recording again, resulting in his final album, 1980’s 'Double Fantasy' ...