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QUEEN Guitarist's Obsession With Victorian Photography Revealed

October 17, 2009

Stephen Adams of Telegraph.co.uk reports: Three years ago QUEEN guitarist Brian May surprised many by coauthoring a book on astrophysics with Sir Patrick Moore, called "Bang! The Complete History of Universe".

Now May, who penned 22 QUEEN hits, including "Fat Bottomed Girls" and "Who Wants to Live Forever?", has turned his polymath's gaze on another unlikely subject — mid 19th century stereoscopic photography.

He and Elena Vidal, a photo-historian, have published a book of pairs of images, each taken from a slightly different angle, that a Victorian pioneer took of vanishing rural life in the 1850s.

Read the entire interview from Telegraph.co.uk.

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