I always and instantly despised Queen and especially Freddy Mercury. Pompous, pretentious, protentious bombast and baloney.
I liked Queen pretty well. I'm just kind of shocked to find this weird response from someone who holds a PhD in Astronomy as Brian May does. He's apparently also writing a book on 19th century stereo photography. He put his science career on hold as a young man in order to be a rock star..heh.
His having designed and made his own guitar out of fireplace wood and chrome motorcycle is pretty cool.