Albums[edit]

Studio Albums

Year Title UK[1] US[1]

1992 Back to the Light (UK:SILVER) 6 159

1998 Another World 23 —

2000 Furia (Original Soundtrack) — —

Live Albums

Year Title UK[1] US

Live at the Brixton

1994 20 —
Academy

EPs

Year Title UK US

198
Star Fleet Project 35[1] 125
3

199 Resurrection - Japanese Tour Mini

— —
3 Album

199
Red Special - Japanese Tour Mini Album — —
8

199
Retro Rock Special — —
8

Singles[edit]
Year Title UK[1] US
1983 "Star Fleet" 65 —

1991 "The Stonk" (Hale and Pace feat. Brian May) 1 —

1991 "Driven by You" 6 —

1992 "Too Much Love Will Kill You" (UK:SILVER) 5 —

1992 "Back to the Light" 19 —

1992 "We Are the Champions" (duet with 'Hank Marvin') 66 —

1993 "Resurrection" 23 —

1993 "Last Horizon" 51 —

1995 "The Amazing Spider-Man" — —

1998 "Business" 51 —

1998 "On My Way Up" — —

1998 "Another World" — —

1998 "Why Don't We Try Again" 44 —

2011 "You and I" (guitar track for Lady Gaga) 23 6

2012 "Rockstar" (Dappy feat. Brian May) 2 —

2013 "Save the Badger Badger Badger" 79 —

 "One Night in Hell" (iTunes single, written by Brian May and Pyotr Ilyich
2014 — —
Tchaikovsky feat. the Czech National Symphony Orchestra)

2019 "New Horizons (Ultima Thule Mix)" — —

Videos[edit]
 1983: Star Licks Master Series (VHS; in 1993 reissued under the title Master Session)
 1994: Live at the Brixton Academy (VHS)

Various artists compilations[edit]

Year of
Compilation Song Comment
release

Greenpeace – Alternative
1994 "New Damage" (with Soundgarden)
NRG

In from the Storm [tribute

1995 "One Rainy Wish"
to Jimi Hendrix]

"Il Colosso" (with Jerry Hadley,

The Adventures of Sissel Kyrkjebø, 'Just William'),
1996 soundtrack
Pinocchio "What Are We Made Of?"
(with Sissel Kyrkjebø)

also B-side of
Twang! A Tribute to Hank
1996 "FBI" the single On
Marvin & The Shadows
My Way Up

Lullabies with a recorded in

1998 "My Boy"
Difference 1982

Music from and Inspired "Have a Cigar" (with the Foo

2000
by Mission: Impossible 2 Fighters)
 Good Rockin' Tonight -
The Legacy of Sun "I Don't Want Nobody Teasing
2002
Records (only on the Around with Me"
Japanese edition)

Music from and Inspired "Someone to Die For" (with Jimmy

2004
by Spider-Man 2 Gnecco)

Queen related projects[edit]

Year of
Song Record
release

1969 Smile "Earth", "Step on Me" Earth/Step on Me (single)

single I Can Hear Music (1973); box

set Freddie Mercury - The Solo
"I Can Hear Music",
1973 Larry Lurex Collection (2000); compilation album Lover
"Goin' Back"
of Life, Singer of Songs - The Very Best of
Freddie Mercury Solo (2006)

"Doing Alright", "Blag",

"April Lady", "Polar
LP Gettin' Smile (Japan, 1982); CD Ghost of
1982 Smile Bear", "Earth", "Step
a Smile (Netherlands, 1997)
on Me" [all songs
recorded 1969]

Other recordings[edit]
Producer and songwriter[edit]
Year of Collaborated May's
Song Record
release with contribution

1986 Minako Honda album Cancel (album) production

Golden
"Golden Days", songwriting,
1987 Minako Honda Days and Crazy
"Crazy Nights" production, guitar
Nights (singles)

1987 Bad News album Bad News production

 produced by May
1987 Heavy Pettin album Lettin Loose (album)
and Mack

songwriting,
1987 Anita Dobson album Talking of Love (album) production, guitar,
backing vocals

In One of My Weaker
"In One of My
1988 Anita Dobson Moments (single, from production, guitar
Weaker Moments"
the musical Budgie)

Who Wants to Live production, guitar

"Who Wants to Live Forever (7"/12" singles; (bass by John
1989 Ian & Belinda
Forever" for the British Bone Deacon, drums
Marrow Donor Appeal) by Roger Taylor)

1990/ Macbeth - Riverside songwriting,

Brian May various tracks
1991 Theatre (unreleased) production

The Stonk (single;
Hale and production, guitar
for Comic Relief;
1991 Pace and the "The Stonk" (drums by Roger
reached No. 1 in the
Stonkers Taylor)
UK chart)

"Appointment", "She guitar, backing

The Left Was Once My vocals; I Need
1993 Handed Friend", "I Need Crazy Chain (album) Time written by
Marriage Time" [recorded Bill Richards and
1967] May

Guest musician[edit]
May's
Year of Collaborated contribution
Song Album/Record
release with Guitar unless
stated

1975 Eddie Howell "Man from Manhattan" Man from Manhattan backing
vocals and
guitar (piano
 and backing
vocals
by Freddie
Mercury)

backing
vocals by
1976 Ian Hunter "You Nearly Did Me In" All-American Alien Boy May, Mercury
and Roger
Taylor

Lonnie
1978 "Digging My Potatoes" Puttin' on the Style
Donegan

B-side of the single

"Stoking the Fires of
Hell" (1980); also bonus
1980 Quartz "Circles" (recorded 1977) track on the 2004
reissue of the
album Stand Up and
Fight

"Stay with Me Tonight",

Jeffrey
1983 "Two Wrongs Don't Make Stay with Me Tonight
Osborne
a Right"

1984 Billy Squier "(Another) 1984" Signs of Life

Chris "A Shift in the Wind,

1985 Radio Voices
Thompson Parts 1 and 2"

1986 Ramoncín "Como un susurro" La vida en el filo

1987 Meat Loaf "A Time for Heroes" A Time for Heroes

"Love Lies Bleeding (She

1988 The Cross Was a Wicked, Wily Shove It
Waitress)"

Holly
1989 "Love Train" Blast
Johnson
 Living in a
1989 "Blow the House Down" Gatecrashing
Box

Black
1989 "When Death Calls" Headless Cross guitar solo
Sabbath

1989 Fuzzbox "Self!" Big Bang

Yes We Can (single; also

Artists United released on the
1989 "Yes We Can"
for Nature compilation Earthrise – The
Rainforest Album)

Rock Aid guitar (drums

1989 "Smoke on the Water" Smoke on the Water
Armenia by Roger Taylor)

Rock Against
1990 "Sailing" Sailing
Repatriation

"Red Planet Blues", "Get

1991 D-Rok Oblivion
Out of My Way"

1992 Extreme "Love of My Life" Song for Love (for

the Terence Higgins Trust)

1992 Judie Tzuke "I Can Read Books" Wonderland

1992 Hank Marvin "We Are the Champions" Into the Light

"A Whole Lot of Love" Phenomena III: Inner

1992 Phenomena
(recorded 1988) Vision

1992 Tony Martin "If There Is a Heaven" Back Where I Belong

"Somewhere in guitar (bass
Time" (instrumental version by John
1992 Cozy Powell The Drums Are Back Deaconon
of "Nothin' But Blue"], "Ride
"Somewhere in
to Win" Time")
 "Don’t Fall Away From The Unauthorised
1992 Steve Hackett
Me" (recorded 1986) Biography

Muddy Water Blues: A

1993 Paul Rodgers "I'm Ready" Tribute to Muddy
Waters

"Cassandra" (recorded
1993 Steve Hackett Guitar Noir (bonus track)
1986)

Os
1994 Paralamas do "El Vampiro Bajo El Sol" Severino
Sucesso

"Who Wants to Live vocals and

1995 Jennifer Rush Out of My Hands
Forever" guitar

Gordon "Heartsong" [recorded Music for the Small

1995
Giltrap 1993] Screen

Carmine "Nobody Knew (Black Carmine Appice's

1995
Appice White House)" Guitar Zeus

S.O.L.
"Make My Dream Come S.O.L. - Some Other
1995 (Stefan
True" Language
Zauner)

1996 Status Quo "Raining in My Heart" Don't Stop

Reaching Out 
(single; for the Nordoff-
1996 Rock Therapy "Reaching Out"
Robbins Music Therapy
Centre)

"Slot Machine" (recorded

2000 Steve Hackett Feedback ‘86
1986)

2000 Tony Iommi "Goodbye Iommi

Lament" (featuring Dave
 Grohl), "Flame
On" (featuring Ian Astbury)

"She Blows Hot and Cold

Freddie The Solo
2000 (Alternative
Mercury Collection (box set)
Version)" (recorded 1984)

Mission: Impossible 2
2000 Foo Fighters Have a Cigar
(soundtrack)

unreleased; official
Michael
2002 "Light the Fire Within" theme of the 2002
Kamen
Winter Olympics

Claire "Too Much Love Will Kill

2002 Claire
Sweeney You"

Lynn Carey backing

2002 "If We Believe" If We Believe
Saylor vocals, guitar

2002 Foo Fighters "Tired of You" One by One

The "Mr. You're a Better Man

2003 Birdland
Yardbirds Than I"

guitar &
2003 Tim Staffell "Earth", "Doin’ Alright" Amigo
vocals

"Il mare impetuoso al

tramonto salì sulla luna e
2004 Zucchero Zu & Co.
dietro una tendina di
stelle..."

Bat Out of Hell III: The

2006 Meat Loaf "Bad for Good"
Monster Is Loose

guitar &
Lynn Carey
2007 "We Belong"[2] You Like It Clean background
Saylor
vocals
 Guns N' "Catcher in the Rye Chinese Uncredited
2007
Roses (Demo)" Democracy (Sessions) Guitar Solo

Arrangement,
backing
"Amazing Grace
Minako vocals,
2008 (Traditional) Produced by Eternal Melody
Honda keyboards,
Brian May"
toy koto,
production

Arrangement,
"Defying Gravity", "I'm
bass, guitars,
Not that Girl", "No-One
2008 Wicked in Rock keys,
but You (Only the Good
production,
Die Young)"
programming

"Dangerland", "Anthem",
"I Can't Be Your Friend
Kerry Ellis (This Can't Be Over)",
"Defying Gravity", "I'm Arrangement,
Not that Girl", "You Have backing
to Be There", "Love It vocals, bass,
2010 Anthems
When You Call", "Save guitars, piano,
Me", "Diamonds Are keyboards,
Forever", "No-One but production
You (Only the Good Die
Young)", "I Loved a
Butterfly"

Taylor
Hawkins and "Way Down", "Don't
2010 Red Light Fever Guitar
the Coattail Have to Speak"
Riders

"Love Is Not Real", "The

2010 Meat Loaf Hang Cool Teddy Bear
Song of Madness"

Tangerine Starmus — Sonic

2011
Dream Universe

2011 Lady Gaga "You and I" Born This Way Guitar

2012 Dappy "Rockstar" No Regrets Guitar

 2015 Motörhead "The Devil" Bad Magic Guitar

Live recordings (selection)

Prince’s Trust Rock

Prince's
Gala (VHS; recorded guitar (bass by
1988 TrustGala
live on 6 June 1988 at Deacon)
Concert
the Royal Albert Hall)

"Too Much Love Will Kill (recorded live

Pavarotti and
1992 You", "La donna è in Modena on 27
Friends
mobile" September 1992)

"Peggy Sue", "Maybe The Strat Pack: Live in

Baby", "I Fought the Concert (DVD; recorded
Law", "Oh Boy!", "That'll live at the concert from the
The Strat
2005 Be the Day" (with The 50th Anniversary of
Pack
Crickets and Albert Lee); the Fender
"All Right Now" (with Stratocaster guitar, 24
Paul Rodgers) September 2004)

Computer games[edit]
 1994: Rise of the Robots (contains reworked tracks from the 1992 album Back to the Light)
 1996: Rise 2: Resurrection (contains Cyborg; in 1998 released on the album Another World)