Comeback of the hard rock faction of Queen

It's been more than 30 years since rock music was still important and had great relevance. Artists were not pop bunnies who sang with computer voices, but stars with guitars, poets, explainers of the world.

We are looking back in a series. Today we look at "Live At The Brixton Academy" by Brian May of Queen and his friends.

Two years after the AIDS death of his friend and bandmate Freddie Mercury, Queen guitarist Brian May ventured back onto the world's stages. A few months after the end of the tour, the official recording was released on CD - despite the bootleg-like tasteless cover and video.

On "Live At The Brixton Academy", recorded at the start of the tour in London on June 15, 1993, May presents himself as the legitimate executor of the Queen's estate. In addition to tracks from his own solo record "Back To The Light" and a Foreigner number, May, who has always been the hard rock faction of Queen, accompanied by a well-paid band with Cozy Powell on drums, also played seven Queen standards such as "Tie Your Mother Down" and "Hammer To Fall" can be heard.

The fact that the 46-year-old guitarist was not born to be a singer is covered up with all the routine of his twenty years on stage and the help of the fantastic vocal duo Porter/Preston; The fact that he remains unbeatable on the fretboard of his home-made guitar is proven by his 6-minute instrumental "Guitar Extravagance", improvised from the well-known "Now I'm Here". Despite the tear-inducing "Love Of My Live": Brian May is anything but a maudlin Mercury altar boy.