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Red Special

Photographs from Queen’s final tour with Freddie Mercury

At just sixteen, Brian May designed and built his guitar together with his father Harold, using assorted found parts: a bicycle rack, a motorcycle valve spring and mother-of-pearl buttons taken from a shirt. The neck was made from wood taken from a hundred-year-old fireplace. It took nearly two years to complete, and it was eventually named Red Special because of the rich red color of the wood. Brian May still plays this guitar today.

Formats and editions

100 x 148 , available no 3/3, 13 000 Euro
70 x 103, available no 5/5, 7 500 Euro
40 x 59, available no 3/25, 1 800 Euro

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