Queen's lead guitarist Brian May reveals 'sad' reason why the band will never tour in the US again
Topics: Glastonbury, Music, Celebrity
Alice Wade
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Topics: Glastonbury, Music, Celebrity
Another one bites the dust… Queen's Brian May has explained why the band won't tour in the US again, despite saying they love America.
The announcement comes despite a long reign of highly successful tours, including Queen's most recent in 2023. That particular tour saw the band joined by American Idol alumni, Adam Lambert, with the pair having performed together since 2012.
However, 78-year-old May insisted that the country has changed a lot since their first performance in April 1974.
"America is a dangerous place at the moment, so you have to take that into account," May told the Daily Mail.
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"It's very sad because I feel like Queen grew up in America, and we love it, but it's not what it was. Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment."
The musician’s wife, Anita Dobson, previously said she had begged her husband to hang up his guitar strings because she ‘wanted him home’.
“It was time to take a break and spend time with family, take stock,” he told the outlet.
"But never say never about not coming back, the rebuild of Queen Two is coming back, and there are a couple of things you haven't heard."
Beyond their US-banned list, it is currently unclear when the band will next perform, with May saying they were taking it ‘day by day’.
It’s not the first time the musician has put his foot down over politics, with May recently insisting that he would never perform at Glastonbury due to political issues with the festival’s organizers.
"I wouldn't do Glastonbury next year because of the politics of the people who run it, unless that changes, I won't do it," he told the Daily Mail.
The musician, who is also a long-time animal rights activist and astrophysicist, claimed that organizers liked ‘killing badgers’, which he vehemently opposed.
"They like killing badgers, and they think it's for sport, and that's something I cannot support because we've been trying to save these badgers for years, and they are still being killed for years, so that's the reason we're missing out on it."
A staunch animal lover, May is the founder of the Save Me Trust, which campaigns for the rights of foxes and badgers.