Sir Brian May recalls making of ‘quintessential Queen track’

Sir Brian May just revealed that he could not afford one of the mainstream branded guitars.

According to Far Out Magazine, the legendary guitarist said, “I desperately wanted a guitar, so when I was seven, Mum and Dad scrimped to buy an acoustic – which I still have – and he taught me the shapes on his banjolele. It wasn’t long before I had electrified it, plugging it into a homemade amplifier.”

He continued, “At 16, I was desperate for a proper electric guitar, but there was no way we could afford it, so Dad and I started making one.”

“I was seventeen, and my dad was a great electronics engineer and a craftsman, so me and my dad set about making a guitar […] I couldn’t afford a Stratocaster or a Gibson or whatever, so we thought, ‘We can make a guitar, and maybe we can make something that’s better than anyone’s ever made,’” the We Will Rock You hitmaker recalled.

Naming one of the best tracks he and the band, Queen, created, which, in his opinion, is I Want It All, the knighted musician stated, “The song was about reaching out and grasping what you want in life.”

“A lot of Queen’s music was about normal people, with normal dreams and normal frustrations trying to grab the kernel of life. So I Want It All sums that up quite well,” Sir Brian added.

Additionally, another one of his favourites, is the song, Made In Heaven, which was finished four years after their flamboyant front man, Freddie Mercury’s death, featuring vocals recorded by the late singer.

“It’s a quintessential Queen track. It’s one of the biggest we ever did. It was never a single, strange enough. It’s one of my favourite tracks. Made In Heaven is so enormous,” Brain May expressed of what he thought about the track.