Brian May turns 77 and launches new single with ZZ Top

To me, Queen II was the sort of emotional music we’d always wanted to be able to play, although we couldn’t play most of it onstage because it was too complicated”. Brian May

Queen guitarist also celebrate 50th anniversary of album Brian May called 'our biggest single step ever'. Born on July 19, 1947, in England.

Queen II was released on March 8th, 1974, coinciding with an extensive UK tour that began at the start of the month. It would eventually climb to No. 5 in the UK chart, helped considerably by constant touring, the band’s first hit single Seven Seas Of Rhye (released two weeks earlier) and their first appearances on the BBC's Top Of The Pops television show. The album gave Queen their first UK/USA Gold status LP.

Brian May launches new single with ZZ Top and Blues Brothers guitarists.

Guitar Legend Steve Cropper Releasing New Album, ‘Friendlytown,’ Featuring Queen’s Brian May and ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons.

Legendary soul/blues guitarist Steve Cropper, longtime member of Booker T. & the M.G.’s and also known for his work with various other Stax Records artists, will release a new album titled Friendlytown on August 23.