Autographed photo of the guitarist of the band "Queen" Brian May

Brian May is a British rock musician, guitarist of the band "Queen", the author of many of the band's hits. His guitar playing was a hallmark of the band as much as Freddie Mercury's vocals.

Brian May received his first children's guitar as a birthday present at the age of 7. At the age of 16, the musician got a real acoustic guitar. There was no money in the family to buy a decent instrument, so the future musician, together with his father, designed it himself, manually. As May recalled: "From all the rubbish lying around in Dad's workshop." That is: from an oak beam from an 18th-century fireplace, parts from an old wardrobe, motorcycle valves, a knife blade, as well as mother-of-pearl buttons. And pickups were made from magnets and wire stuck into his father's homemade radio. The work lasted for more than two years and cost the future musician only 8 pounds. This guitar, the Red Special, remains Brian May's main instrument to this day and sounds more often than all the others in the hits of "Queen".