# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-may
# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:45:48.896Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  May co-founded Queen in 1970 with Freddie Mercury and Roger Taylor (he'd played with Taylor in Smile at university), and bassist John Deacon joined a year later. The band broke globally with A Night at the Opera in 1975, and through the mid-'70s and '80s they filled the world's largest venues — Live Aid in 1985 remains a high-water mark. May wrote fist-in-the-air anthems like "We Will Rock You" and "Who Wants to Live Forever", his Red Special guitar producing a sound no one else could match. After Mercury died in 1991, Queen went quiet except for the tribute concert and Made in Heaven; May later penned "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)" in Mercury's memory. He and Taylor eventually brought Queen back with guest vocalists. May finished the astrophysics PhD he'd shelved for the band, worked with NASA on the New Horizons and OSIRIS-REx missions, campaigns against badger culling, and was knighted in 2023.