Queen legend Brian May leaves fans in tears over emotional family announcement
Queen rockstar Sir Brian May has shared a touching family tribute online with fans flocking to the comments to share messages of support
Queen legend Brian May has been flooded with support from fans after sharing a touching throwback snap from 1971 on social media. The rock icon shared a moving picture of a map that was created by his late father, Harold May, to memorialise the band's first tour across Europe.
Alongside the illustration, the 77-year-old penned: 'My Dad's supportive handiwork for our first Queen tour of Europe... 1974!!! As honoured in Stockholm last night. Love to all - Bri.' Queen's European tour consisted of ten shows in six countries which they performed over a two and a half week period.
Sir Brian shared the snap to Instagram, where he has 3.5M followers and thousands of his loyal fans flocked to the comments to offer kind messages to the singer. One replied: "Oh what a heartfelt map full of love for you, Sir!"
A second commented 'Wow!! What a treasure!! Can't you just picture him sitting there, drawing, coloring, marking the routes, all the time thinking proudly, 'That's MY boy!''
A third fan exclaimed: 'I saw and crying, I didn't expect than I'm a small girl at 1994 in Russian my Papa brought me a CD The Works and told 'See, this is a good Music' then a couldn't explain my life without Queen music.'
A fourth added: "What beautiful attention to detail your father gave to these maps and what a lovely tribute you gave to him last night. Inspiring word".
Brian's touching post comes after he and Queen drummer Roger Taylor were awarded the 2025 Polar Music Prize at a gala ceremony in Sweden this week on Tuesday May 27.
The legendary musicians were honoured for their remarkable careers and contribution to music.
Stepping up to accept the award, Brian told the crowds: 'In this special moment, I contemplate how that younger Brian May in 1974 would have felt if he knew that we would be living this kind of dream 50 years in the future.'
While Roger recalled: 'When we started our band… we had ambitions, but never dreamed of the journey that was to follow.
"We were fortunate in the fact that our four wildly different personalities came together to achieve a wonderful chemistry.
'The Polar Music Prize is exceptional in the fact that, unlike other awards, it recognises the entirety of an artist's career.
"What an honour to be included in the glittering cavalcade of previous laureates.'
The evening featured live musical performances celebrating Queen's legacy and the other award winners and nominees as rock band Ghost performed a rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody alongside Opeth guitarist Fredrik Akesson.
Queen frontman Adam Lambert, who was appointed as the de facto lead singer of the band in 2011, then took to the stage.
He sang Queen hits Who Wants to Live Forever and Another One Bites the Dust, which were originally performed by the late Freddie Mercury.
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