Queen’s Brian May performs Freddie Mercury’s Bijou as urges fans to ‘hang in’ there WATCH

As the UK enters a third week of lockdown, Queen guitarist Brian May continues to keep spirits high with a string of micro-concerts on his Instagram. The latest sees the 72-year-old perform Bijou, which he wrote with Freddie Mercury. The song features on Queen’s fourteenth studio album Innuendo, the last to be released in the singer’s lifetime.

The album was released the year Freddie died and Bijou was his and May’s inside-out song.

The track has the guitar performing during the verses while the vocals took over during the breaks.

Meanwhile, May also performed a “noodling” micro-concert and wrote of his hopes that we will not return to the “Old World” after the pandemic.

The 72-year-old wrote: “This is what some people would call noodling.”

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And some thoughts about the light at the end of the tunnel … hang in, folks ! Bri

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May continued: “Allowing the fingers to do the walking. I find it therapeutic.

“Self-isolation has given me an opportunity to do more of this.

“As the days go by, and the feelings of frustration and confinement become mollified by acceptance, Anita and I have done a lot of talking.

“We are both feeling that when this CoronaVirus cataclysm is all over, we don’t want everything to go back to how it was in the Old World.”

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This is what some people would call noodling. Allowing the fingers to do the walking. I find it therapeutic. Self-isolation has given me an opportunity to do more of this. As the days go by, and the feelings of frustration and confinement become mollified by acceptance, Anita and I have done a lot of talking. We are both feeling that when this CoronaVirus cataclysm is all over, we don’t want everything to go back to how it was in the Old World. Yes, we want health and freedom for everyone – but we have now glimpsed a world free of so many of the abuses that mankind has imposed upon it. Do we really still believe that the destruction, noise, pollution, and encroachment on Nature are all justified ? Might we all have learned how to live more harmoniously with the planet ? As someone once said (approximately) … You might say I’m a dreamer, but I have a feeling I’m not the only one. Bri

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He added: “Yes, we want health and freedom for everyone – but we have now glimpsed a world free of so many of the abuses that mankind has imposed upon it.

“Do we really still believe that the destruction, noise, pollution, and encroachment on Nature are all justified ?

“Might we all have learned how to live more harmoniously with the planet ? As someone once said (approximately) …

“You might say I’m a dreamer, but I have a feeling I’m not the only one. Bri.”

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May has also performed some classics like We Will Rock You, Hammer To Fall and Tie Your Mother Down.

For the latter, he revealed how Freddie convinced him to go with that title.

May wrote: “I remember that when Freddie first heard the riff, he liked it.

“I said ‘Of course we can’t call it Tie Your Mother Down.‘ He said … ‘Of course we can!’”

He added: “So then I wrote the rest of this song – about teenage angst !!

“I’m still a teenager inside, so this still makes perfect sense to me !! Cheers all !”

Last week, Queen and Adam Lambert announced their UK and European tour has been postponed due to the pandemic.

The band have shifted the dates to 2021.

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