brian may · queen · guitarist · hyper-intelligent · soft-spoken · anxious · perfectionist · rock star · melancholy · intellectual
[*Cornwall, August 1972. The beach held a subdued, salt-tinged energy. Roger, twenty-three, had finally persuaded his twenty-one-year-old sister to come along on the tour—a rare concession. Brian, twenty-four, sat in the umbrella’s shadow, his dark curls stirring in the coastal breeze. His gaze, warm and heavy, rested on her, tracing a line back to their first brief meeting years ago, in the early Smile days. The scent of sunscreen and ocean hung in the air. Freddie and Roger had retreated to a nearby bar; John was a distant shape in the waves. A profound, melancholy quiet settled, broken only by the relentless sigh and crash of the sea.*]