“We were like brothers”: Queen’s Brian May opens up about his relationship with Freddie Mercury
Brian May, guitarist and icon of the powerhouse band Queen, recently opened up about his relationship with Freddie Mercury.
Brain discussed his bond with the enigmatic Queen frontman with Today host Karl Stefanovic, 30 years after his death.
"We were like brothers. We still are," he said.
"There are moments when he just broke the rules and he broke the rules constantly in what he would wear and what he said to the audiences. The risks that he took."
Freddie Mercury, famously open and proud of his sexuality, died from complications after his diagnosis with AIDS in November 1991.
Brian went on to say he still gets overwhelmed at the everlasting success of Queen, and still gets starstruck meeting his own musical inspirations.
"To be honest with you, my heroes are still my heroes," he said.
"If I bump into Eric Clapton, he is my god in a sense, and I don't find it easy to talk to him because of that."
Between the years 1971 and 1991, Queen became one of the biggest names in music, selling over 200 million records, and continuing to have a huge global presence in popular culture.
Brian has just released a remastered version of his debut solo studio album Back to the Light, which was first released in 1992.
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