{"id":29885,"date":"2024-07-10T12:02:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queens-brian-may-on-writing-for-freddie-mercury-he-was-always-very-encouraging\/"},"modified":"2024-07-10T12:02:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T12:02:50","slug":"queens-brian-may-on-writing-for-freddie-mercury-he-was-always-very-encouraging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queens-brian-may-on-writing-for-freddie-mercury-he-was-always-very-encouraging\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s Brian May on writing for Freddie Mercury: \u201cHe was always very encouraging\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-07-09\/Getty_Queen_070924.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Phil Dent\/Redferns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Queen<\/strong> guitarist <strong>Brian May<\/strong> is opening up about his working relationship with the band\u2019s late frontman,\u00a0<strong>Freddie Mercury<\/strong>, in a new interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.guitarworld.com\/features\/brian-may-guitar-world-2024-queen-guitarist-talks-gibson-freddie-mercury-and-tone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Guitar World<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">May was talking about how insecure he often\u00a0felt when people first heard a new song from him, noting \u201cit\u2019s always nerve-racking for me, no matter who it is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But he said that wasn\u2019t necessarily the case with Mercury.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cFreddie was always great. I used to sing stuff to him, and he was always very encouraging,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course, I was generally writing for him. I was conscious that I had to write something that would work for him, not just for me. And generally, he would take hold of it very quickly.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He added, \u201c[Freddie] was always very upfront; he had an amazing amount of drive, optimism and energy. He was very helpful with my insecurities, and he kind of chose me as his guitarist in the early days.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Talking about the encouragement he\u2019d get from Mercury, May shared, \u201cHe always said, &#8216;You can do anything anyone can do, Brian. You can do this for me.'&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cThat sounds like I\u2019m making him out as big-headed, but he wasn\u2019t,&#8221; May says, &#8220;it was just this enthusiasm of, \u2018We can do this together. We can be the best thing in the world.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Dent\/Redferns Queen guitarist Brian May is opening up about his working relationship with the band\u2019s late frontman,\u00a0Freddie Mercury, in a new interview with Guitar World. May was talking about how insecure he often\u00a0felt when people first heard a new song from him, noting \u201cit\u2019s always nerve-racking for me, no<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/queens-brian-may-on-writing-for-freddie-mercury-he-was-always-very-encouraging\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}