Brian May Discography
 
Albums
 
1983
 
Starfleet Project EP
 
  • Starfleet
  • Let Me Out
  • Blues Breaker
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    31st October 1983 (UK)
     
    Other Musicians: Eddie Van Halen, Phil Chen, Brian Getzer, Fred Mandel
    Recorded at The Record Plant, Los Angeles
     
  • LP UK - EMI SFLT 1078061
  • LP Germany - EMI 1C 038 1078061
  • LP USA - Capitol MLP-15014
  • LP Japan - EMI EMS-41013
  • Cass. USA - Capitol 4LP-15014
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    The Starfleet tracks were later re-released in 1992 on two UK CD singles of Back To The Light and on the Japanese CDEP of Resurrection.
     
    1992
     
    Back To The Light
     
  • The Dark (May)
  • Back To The Light (May)
  • Love Token (May)
  • Resurrection (with Cozy Powell) (May, Powell, Page. Words May)
  • Too Much Love Will Kill You (May, Musker, Lamers)
  • Driven By You (May)
  • Nothin' But Blue (May, Powell. Words May)
  • I'm Scared (Justins mix '92) (May)
  • Last Horizon (May)
  • Let Your Heart Rule Your Head (May)
  • Just One Life (May)
  • Rollin' Over (Marriot, Lane)
  • * Driven By You (remix)
  • + Just One Life (guitar version)
  • + Too Much Love Will Kill You (guitar version)
    • * = bonus track on Hollywood CD + = bonus tracks on Japanese CD
     
    September 1992 (UK)
    February 1993 (US)
    7th June 1993 (UK) (Limited UK gold tour edition)
     
    Brian May, everything except...
    Cozy Powell (drums on Back To The Light, Love Token, Resurrection, Nothin' But Blue and I'm Scared)
    Gary Tibbs (bass on Back To The Light, Let Your Heart Rule Your Head and Rollin' Over)
    Miriam Stockley (backing vocals on Back To The Light and Rollin' Over)
    Maggie Ryder (backing vocals on Back To The Light and Rollin' Over)
    Suzie O'List (backing vocals on Back To The Light and Let Your Heart Rule Your Head)
    Gill O'Donovan (backing vocals on Back To The Light and Let Your Heart Rule Your Head)
    Neil Murray (bass on Love Token and I'm Scared)
    Mike Moran (piano on Love Token and Rollin' Over, keyboards on Last Horizon)
    Don Airey (keyboards on Resurrection and Nothin' But Blue)
    John Deacon (bass on Nothin' But Blue)
    Geoff Dugmore (drums on Let Your Heart Rule Your Head and Rollin' Over)
    Chris Thompson (backing vocals on Rollin' Over)
     
    Produced by Brian May.
     
    The limited UK tour edition is a gold pressing of the CD with a different design printed on the disk. The music and booklet are identical to the normal release. This edition was limited to 10,000 discs.
     
  • CD UK - Parlophone CDPCSD-123
  • CD UK - Parlophone CDPCSDX-123 (Limited UK gold tour edition)
  • CD USA - Hollywood HR-61404-2
  • CD Japan - EMI TOCP-7235
  • LP UK - Parlophone PCSD 123
  • LP Germany - Parlophone 0777 7 8040019
  • Cass. USA - Hollywood HR-61404-2
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    Resurrection EP
     
  • Resurrection
  • Love Token
  • Too Much Love Will Kill You (Live)
  • Back To The Light (Live)
  • Tie Your Mother Down (Live)
  • Blues Breaker
  • Star Fleet
  • Let Me Out
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    CD Japan - EMI TOCP-8087 released in Japan only.
     
    1994
     
    Live At The Brixton Academy
     
  • Back To The Light (May)
  • Driven By You (May)
  • Tie Your Mother Down (May)
  • Love Token (May)
  • Headlong (Queen)
  • Love Of My Life (Mercury)
  • 39 / Let Your Heart Rule Your Head (May)
  • Too Much Love Will Kill You (May, Musker, Lamers)
  • Since You've Been Gone (Russ Ballard)
  • Now I'm Here (May)
  • Guitar Extravagance (May)
  • Resurrection (May, Powell, Page)
  • Last Horizon (May)
  • We Will Rock You (May)
  • Hammer To Fall (May)
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    7th February 1994 (UK)
     
    Brian May (Vocals/guitar)
    Cozy Powell (Drums)
    Neil Murray (Bass)
    Spike Edney (Keyboards)
    Jamie Moses (Guitar/vocals)
    Cathy Porter (Vocals)
    Shelley Preston (Vocals)
     
    Recorded live at the Brixton Academy, London on 15th June 1993
     
  • LP UK - Parlophone PCSD-150
  • CD Holland - Parlophone 7243 8 2858928
  • CD UK - Parlophone CDPCSD-150
  • CD Japan - EMI TOCP-8087

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    1998

    Another World
     

  • Space
  • Business
  • China Belle
  • Why Don't We Try Again
  • On My Way Up
  • Cyborg
  • The Guvnor
  • Wilderness
  • Slow Down
  • One Rainy Wish
  • All The Way From Memphis
  • Another World

    •  Japanese bonus tracks:
  • F.B.I.
  • Whatever Happened To Saturday Night

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  • LP PD UK - Parlophone 4949731
  • CD UK -  Parlophone 4949732
  • Promo CD UK - Parlophone CDPP057
  • CD Japan - Toshiba-EMI TOCP-50473
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    Singles
     
    1983
     
    Starfleet (remix) / Son Of Starfleet
     
  • 7" UK - EMI 5436
  • 7" Germany - EMI 1C 006-1078157
  • 7" Canada - Capitol B-5278
  • 7" Spain - EMI 006-1078157
  • 7" USA - Capitol SPRO-9008 white label promo
  • 12" USA - Capitol SPRO-9009 white label promo
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    1991
     
    Driven By You / Just One Life
     
  • 7" UK - Parlophone R6304 25th November 1991 peak pos: #6
  • 7" Germany - Parlophone 006-2045867
  • Cass. UK - Parlophone TCR-6304
  • 12" UK - Parlophone 12R-6304 adds Just One Life (Guitar version) / Driven By You (Ford TV ad version)
  • 12" Germany - Parlophone 060-2045866
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDR-6304 adds Just One Life (Guitar version)
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDRJ-6304 (Edited Version), (Pollarded Version), (Special Version), (Proper Version) promo only
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    1992
     
    Too Much Love Will Kill You / I'm Scared
     
  • 7" UK - Parlophone R6320 mid 1992
  • 7" Germany - Parlophone 006-8801997
  • 7" France - EMI 8801997 different picture sleeve
  • CD5 Japan - EMI TOCP-7436 adds Driven By You (new version)
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDR-6320 adds Too Much Love Will Kill You (guitar version) / Driven By You (new version)
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDRS-6320 red cardboard "pill" sleeve
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone MAYDJ1 TMLWKY / Resurrection / Last Horizon / Driven By You (new) (TMLWKY sampler, blue cardboard "pill" sleeve) promo only
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    Back To The Light / Nothin' But Blue (Guitar version)
     
  • 7" UK - Parlophone R6329 late 1992
  • Cass. UK - Parlophone TCR-6329
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDRX-6329 adds Star Fleet / Let Me Out (part 1 of 2)
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDR-6329 adds Blues Breaker (part 2 of 2)
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDRDJ-6329 promo only
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    1993
     
    Driven By You / Just One Life
     
  • Cass. USA - Hollywood HR-64642 March 1993
  • CD5 USA - Hollywood PRCD-10322-2 English edit / album version (US promo)
  • CD5 USA - Hollywood PRCD-10319-2 CHR Edit shorter / CHR Edit shortest / Radio mix (May, Malouf) tracks incorrectly listed as on PRCD-10322-2
  • CD5 USA - Hollywood PRCD-10273-2 Radio mix (May, Malouf) / Rock Radio edit / album version (US promo hexagonal compass box)
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    Resurrection / Love Token / Too Much Love Will Kill You (Live)
     
  • Cass. UK - Parlophone TCR-6351 7th Jun 1993
  • 12" UK - Parlophone 12RPD-6351 picture disc
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDRS-6351 part 1 of 2
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDR-6351 Resurrection / Driven By You Two / Back To The Light (Live) / Tie Your Mother Down (Live) part 2 of 2
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    Too Much Love Will Kill You
     
  • CD5 USA - Hollywood PRCD-10343-2 (Album version) / (Live version) / (Instrumental) promo only
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    Resurrection
     
  • CD5 USA - Hollywood PRCD-10320-2 (edit) / (album version) promo only
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    Last Horizon / 39' / Let Your Heart Rule Your Head (Live)
     
  • 7" UK - Parlophone R-6371 6th Dec 1993
  • Cass. UK - Parlophone TCR-6371
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDR-6371 Last Horizon (radio edit) / Last Horizon (live) / We Will Rock You (live) / Last Horizon (album verison)
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDRS-6371 pop-up sleeve
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    1995
     
    The Amazing Spiderman
     
  • Cass. UK - Parlophone TCR 6404 The Amazing Spiderman Master Mix / Sad Bit 27th Feb 1995
  • 12" UK - Parlophone 12RPD 6404 The Amazing Spiderman Master Mix / Sad Bit / White Trouser Mix (Picture disc)
  • 12" UK - Parlophone 12R-DJ-6404 The Solution Mix / Solution Chilled Mix / B + J White Trouser Mix (Promo only)
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDR-6404 The Amazing Spiderman Master Mix / Sad Bit / White Trouser Mix / Brown Trouser Mix
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    Nobody Knew (Black White House)
     
  • CD5 UK - NoBull 34337-2

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    1998

    On My Way Up / Maybe Baby / F.B.I.
     

  • CD5 Holland - Parlophone
  • CD5 Holland - Parlophone 1 track promo MAY 1

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    The Business (Rock on Cozy mix) / Maybe Baby / Brian Talks / Enhanced Multimedia Section

     
  • 7" UK - Parlophone R6498 w/o Brian Talks & Multimedia
  • CD5 UK - Parlophone CDR 6498
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    COLLABORATIONS WITH OTHER ARTISTS
     
    1967 "Appointment", "She Was Once My Friend, "I Need Time" by Left Handed Marriage played guitar and cowrote the latter track from "Crazy Chain"
    1973 "I Can Hear Music" / "Goin' Back" by Larry Lurex UK and USA single [Freddie and Roger]
    1975 All four members of Queen helped produce a session with the soul band Trax. Nothing was ever released [Freddie, Roger, John]
    1976 "Man From Manhattan" by Eddie Howell played guitar on this single. [Freddie]
    1976 "You Nearly Did Me In" by Ian Hunter backing vocals on this song, from the album "All American Alien Boy" [Freddie, Roger]
    1977 "Diggin' My Potatoes" by Lonnie Donnegan played guitar, from the album "Puttin' On The Style" Brian also played on the track "Rolling Stone" which was never released.
    1977 "Injured Innocence" by Gavin York plays guitar on this album
    1983 "Stay With Me Tonight", "Two Wrongs Don't Make A Right" by Jeffrey Osborne played guitar, from the album "Stay With Me Tonight"
    1983 "Lettin' Loose" by Heavy Pettin co-produced this album with Mack.
    1984 "(Another) 1984" by Billy Squier played guitar, from the album "Sign Of Life" Also on the 1996 Billy Squier anthology "Reach For The Sky"
    1984 "A Shift In The Wind" (both Parts I and II) by Chris Thompson played guitar, from the album "Radio Voices", a German release.
    1986 "Golden Days" / "Crazy Nights" by Minako Honda Wrote, produced, and played guitar on both sides of this single
    1987  Bad News produced this album by the spoof heavy metal band Rereleased in 1993 as "The Cash In Compilation"
    1987 "Bohemian Rhapsody" / "Life with Brian" by Bad News guitar on this single [John]
    1987 "Cashing In On Christmas" / "Bad News" by Bad News produced the first song, played on the b-side
    1987 "A Time For Heroes" by Meatloaf played guitar, released as a limited edition single in the US for the USA Paralympic Games. Also released as "Heroes" on "Back From Hell Again! The Very Best Of Meatloaf (Vol 2. More Hits & Rare Tracks)" in Germany in 1994
    1987 "Electric Rumba" by Jose Lucas rumoured to have played guitar on this French single
    1988 "Como Un Susurro" by Ramoncin played on this Spanish single from the album "La Vider En El Filo"
    1988 "Slot Machine" by Steve Hackett plays guitar on this song, it's on the album "Feedback" by Steve Hackett.
    1988 "Talkin Of Love" by Anita Dobson produced this album, wrote most of the songs and played guitar and backing vocals. Four singles from the album were "Talkin Of Love", "I Dream Of Christmas", "Let Me In (Your Heart Again)" and "To Know Him Is To Love Him"
    1989 "In One Of My Weaker Moments" by Anita Dobson played guitar on the single from the stage musical "Budgie"
    1989 "Love Train" by Holly Johnson played the guitar solo on this single
    1989 "Blow The House Down" by Living In A Box played the guitar solo on this single
    1989 "When Death Calls" by Black Sabbath played guitar on this track, from the album "The Headless Cross"
    1989 "Let Your Heart Rule Your Head" by Lonnie Donnegan wrote and played on this song, from album of the same name. This was never released by Lonnie Donnegan, but Brian released it on his 1992 solo album "Back To The Light".
    1989 "Yes We Can" by Artists United For Nature played on this charity single with other major artists
    1989 "Who Wants To Live Forever" by Ian & Belinda (ODO 112) produced and played on this song for Bone Marrow Appeal, made several public appearances also. [Roger and John]
    1989 "Smoke On The Water" by Rock Aid Armenia played on this charity record [Roger]
    1989 "Self!" by Fuzzbox plays guitar on this track from the album "Big Bang"
    1989 "Fork In The Road" by Jonathan Kelly plays guitar on a track from this album, not released yet
    1989 "Lady Of Leisure" by Gareth Marks plays guitar on this song from an unreleased debut LP
    1990 "Sailing" by Rock Against Repatriation played on this charity single
    1990  Responsible for the music for the musical "MacBeth" in London
    1991 "The Stonk" by Hale and Pace produced and played on this charity record [Roger]
    1991 "Get Out Of My Way", "Red Planet Blues" by D-Rok plays guitar on these tracks from the album "Oblivion"
    1992 "Love Of My Life" by Extreme played guitar and backing vocals along with Extreme for this single, proceeds go to AIDS charities
    1992 "Yes We Can" by Artists United For Nature played on this track from Earthrise - The Rainforest Album
    1992 "Ride To Win", "Somewhere In Time" by Cozy Powell played on these tracks from the album "The Drums Are Back". They are instrumental versions of "Resurrection" and "Nothin' But Blue" respectively from Brian's album "Back To The Light" [John]
    1992 "We Are The Champions" version by Hank Marvin played on this track from Hank Marvin's album "Into The Light"
    1992 "Pavarotti & Friends" played Too Much Love and guitar on La Donna E Mobile at this charity gig.
    1992 "Tonight" by Def Leppard includes Now I'm Here from the Freddie tribue concert
    1992 "A Whole Lot Of Love" by Phenomena plays guitar on this track from "Phenomena III : Inner Vision"
    1992 "Don't Fall Away From Me" by Steve Hackett plays guitar on this track from the "Unauthorised Biography" CD
    1992 "I Can Read Books" by Judie Tzuke played guitar on this track from "Wonderland"
    1992 "If There's A Heaven" by Tony Martin plays guitar on this track from "Back Where I Belong"
    1992  Brian worked on an unreleased track with Dweezil Zappa, possibly on the "Shampoo Horn" album
    1993 "I'm Ready" by Paul Rodgers played guitar on this track from Muddy Water Blues
    1993 "Heartsong" by Gordon Giltrap played guitar on this track from the album "Music for the Small Screen"
    1993 "Cassandra" by Steve Hackett appeared on this track from the US album "Guitar Noir"
    1994 "New Damage" by Soundgarden and Brian May played on this track for the Greenpeace compilation Alternative NRG
    1994 "El Vampiro Bajo El Sol" by Os Paralamas do Sucesso played on this track from the album "Severino"
    1994 "Man From Manhattan" by Eddie Howell played guitar on this rereleased single from the album of the same name. [Freddie]
    1994 "Who Wants To Live Forever" by Jennifer Rush recorded a duet from the album "Out Of My Hands"
    1994 "Rise of the Robots" computer game parts of "The Dark" (from Back to the Light) were used in this game A "Director's Cut" features clips about the making of the game.
    1995 "The Amazing Spiderman" BBC Radio 1 series composed and played the theme music for this two and half hour series. A single was released.
    1995 "FBI" guitar and arrangements on this track from the Hank Marvin album Twang
    1995 "One Rainy Wish" vocals and guitar on this track from the Jimi Hendrix tribute album "In From The Storm", also available on promo sampler CD.
    1995 "Nobody Knew (Black White House)" guitar solo on this song from "Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus", also available on a CD single.
    1996 "Cyborg" composed this song for the computer game "Rise 2 : Resurrection" A "Director's Cut" features clips about the making of the game.
    1996 "Il Colosso" co-wrote/produced, arranged, and played on this track from The Adventures Of Pinocchio
    1996 "What Are We Made Of" co-produced, played and provided co-vocals on this track from The Adventures Of Pinocchio
    1996 "All The Way From Memphis" played guitar and sang lead vocals on this track from the Mott tribute album Moth Poet Hotel
    1996 "Reaching Out" played guitar on this Rock Therapy charity single
     
     
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