Brian May discography

|Back to the Light

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|Another World

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|La musique de Furia

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| Live at the Brixton Academy
(The Brian May Band)

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| Star Fleet Project
(Brian May + Friends)

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| Resurrection – Japanese Tour Mini Album

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| Red Special – Japanese Tour Mini Album

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| Retro Rock Special
(as T. E. Conway)

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|Chris Thompson featuring Brian May

|Radio Voices

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|Tangerine Dream And Brian May

|Starmus – Sonic Universe

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|Acoustic by Candlelight

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|Golden Days

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|align="left"|Gettin' Smile (LP, Japan)

|rowspan="2" align="left"|Tracks "Doing Alright", "Blag", "April Lady", "Polar Bear", "Earth", "Step on Me" [all songs recorded 1969]

|align="left"| Ghost of a Smile (CD, Netherlands)

| "Star Fleet"

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| Star Fleet Project

| "Driven by You"

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| "Too Much Love Will Kill You"

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|UK: Silver
NLD: Gold{{Cite web|url=https://nvpi.nl/nvpi-audio/marktinformatie/goud-platina/|title = Goud/Platina|website=Nvpi.nl}}

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| "Resurrection"
(with Cozy Powell)

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| "The Man from Manhattan"
(with Freddie Mercury & Eddie Howell)

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|Non-album single

|"Nobody Knew (Black White House)"
(with Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus)

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|Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus

| "The Business (Rock on Cozy Mix)"

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|"Born Free"
(with Kerry Ellis)

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| rowspan="2" |Acoustic By Candlelight

|"The Kissing Me Song"
(with Kerry Ellis)

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| "One Night in Hell"
(with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra)

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|"One Voice"
(with Norah Jones, Aimee Mann, Susanna Hoffs, Lydia Loveless, Neko Case, Kathryn Calder)

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| "New Horizons (Ultima Thule Mix)"

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| "Panic Attack 2021 (It's Gonna Be Alright)"
(with Kerry Ellis)

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| "Floating in Heaven"
(with Graham Gouldman)

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|"A Time For Heroes"
(Meat Loaf with Brian May)

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| "We Are the Champions"
(Hank Marvin feat. Brian May)

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|Non-album single

|"If We Believe"
(Lynn Carey Saylor feat. Brian May)

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|You Like It Clean

|"Move It"
(Cliff Richard feat. Brian May & Brian Bennett)

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|Non-album single

|"Somebody to Love"
(Catherine Porter feat. Brian May)

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|Gems for Ruby

|"Yoü and I"
(Lady Gaga feat. Brian May)

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|US: 3× Platinum

|Born This Way

| "Rockstar"
(Dappy feat. Brian May)

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|Bad Intentions

|"Blue on Black"
(Five Finger Death Punch feat. Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brantley Gilbert and Brian May)

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|US: Platinum

|And Justice for None

|"One Beautiful Christmas Day"
(Kerry Ellis feat. Brian May)

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|Non-album single

|align="left"|"Earth" / "Step on Me"

|align="left"|Non-album single

|align="left"|Greenpeace – Alternative NRG

|align="left"|"New Damage" (with Soundgarden)

|align="left"|In from the Storm (tribute to Jimi Hendrix]

|align="left"|"One Rainy Wish" (later released on the album Another World)

|align="left"|Pinocchio: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

|align="left"|"Il Colosso" (with Jerry Hadley, Sissel Kyrkjebø, 'Just William'), "What Are We Made Of?" (with Sissel Kyrkjebø)

|align="left"|Twang! A Tribute to Hank Marvin & The Shadows

|align="left"|"FBI" (later released as a B-side of the single On My Way Up)

|align="left"|Lullabies with a Difference

|align="left"|"My Boy" (recorded in 1982)

|align="left"|Music from and Inspired by Mission: Impossible 2

|align="left"|"Have a Cigar" (with the Foo Fighters)

|align="left"|Good Rockin' Tonight – The Legacy of Sun Records

|align="left"|"I Don't Want Nobody Teasing Around with Me"(Japanese edition only)

|align="left"|"God Save the Queen"

|align="left"|Music from and Inspired by Spider-Man 2

|align="left"|"Someone to Die For" (with Jimmy Gnecco)

|align="left"|BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge 2012

|align="left"|"We Will Rock You" (with Dappy)

|align="left"|Minako Honda

|align="left"|Cancel

|align="left"|production

|align="left"|Minako Honda

|align="left"|"Golden Days", "Crazy Nights"

|align="left"|songwriting, production, guitar

|align="left"|Bad News

|align="left"|Bad News

|align="left"|production

|align="left"|Heavy Pettin

|align="left"|Lettin Loose

|align="left"|produced by May and Mack

|align="left"|Anita Dobson

|align="left"|Talking of Love

|align="left"|songwriting, production, guitar, backing vocals

|align="left"|Anita Dobson

|align="left"|"In One of My Weaker Moments"

|align="left"|production, guitar

|align="left"|Ian & Belinda

|align="left"|"Who Wants to Live Forever"

|align="left"|production, guitar (bass by John Deacon, drums by Roger Taylor)

|align="left"|Hale and Pace and the Stonkers

|align="left"|"The Stonk"

|align="left"|production, guitar (drums by Roger Taylor)

|align="left"|Eddie Howell

|align="left"|"Man from Manhattan"

|align="left"|Man from Manhattan

|align="left"|backing vocals and guitar (piano and backing vocals by Freddie Mercury)

|align="left"|Ian Hunter

|align="left"|"You Nearly Did Me In"

|align="left"|All-American Alien Boy

|align="left"|backing vocals by May, Mercury and Roger Taylor

|align="left"|Lonnie Donegan

|align="left"|"Digging My Potatoes"

|align="left"|Puttin' on the Style

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|align="left"|Quartz

|align="left"|"Circles" (recorded 1977)

|align="left"|B-side of the single "Stoking the Fires of Hell" (1980); also bonus track on the 2004 reissue of the album Stand Up and Fight

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|align="left"|Jeffrey Osborne

|align="left"|"Stay with Me Tonight", "Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right"

|align="left"|Stay with Me Tonight

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|align="left"|Billy Squier

|align="left"|"(Another) 1984"

|align="left"|Signs of Life

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|align="left"|Chris Thompson

|align="left"|"A Shift in the Wind, Parts 1 and 2"

|align="left"|Radio Voices

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|align="left"|Ramoncín

|align="left"|"Como un susurro"

|align="left"|La vida en el filo

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|align="left"|The Cross

|align="left"|"Love Lies Bleeding (She Was a Wicked, Wily Waitress)"

|align="left"|Shove It

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|align="left"|Holly Johnson

|align="left"|"Love Train"

|align="left"|Blast

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|align="left"|Living in a Box

|align="left"|"Blow the House Down"

|align="left"|Gatecrashing

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|align="left"|Black Sabbath

|align="left"|"When Death Calls"

|align="left"|Headless Cross

|align="left"|guitar solo

|align="left"|Fuzzbox

|align="left"|"Self!"

|align="left"|Big Bang!

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|align="left"|Artists United for Nature

|align="left"|"Yes We Can"

|align="left"|Yes We Can (single; also released on the compilation Earthrise – The Rainforest Album)

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|align="left"|Rock Aid Armenia

|align="left"|"Smoke on the Water"

|align="left"|Smoke on the Water

|align="left"|guitar (drums by Roger Taylor)

|align="left"|Rock Against Repatriation

|align="left"|"Sailing"

|align="left"|Sailing

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|align="left"|D-Rok

|align="left"|"Red Planet Blues", "Get Out of My Way"

|align="left"|Oblivion

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|align="left"|Extreme

|align="left"|"Love of My Life"

|align="left"|Song for Love (for the Terence Higgins Trust)

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|align="left"|Judie Tzuke

|align="left"|"I Can Read Books"

|align="left"|Wonderland

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|align="left"|Phenomena

|align="left"|"A Whole Lot of Love" (recorded 1988)

|align="left"|Phenomena III: Inner Vision

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|align="left"|Tony Martin

|align="left"|"If There Is a Heaven"

|align="left"|Back Where I Belong

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|align="left"|Cozy Powell

|align="left"|"Somewhere in Time" (instrumental version of "Nothin' But Blue"], "Ride to Win"

|align="left"|The Drums Are Back

|align="left"|guitar (bass by John Deacon on "Somewhere in Time")

|align="left"|Steve Hackett

|align="left"|"Don’t Fall Away From Me" (recorded 1986)

|align="left"|The Unauthorised Biography

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|align="left"|Paul Rodgers

|align="left"|"I'm Ready"

|align="left"|Muddy Water Blues: A Tribute to Muddy Waters

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|align="left"|Steve Hackett

|align="left"|"Cassandra" (recorded 1986)

|align="left"|Guitar Noir (bonus track)

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|align="left"|The Left Handed Marriage

|align="left"|"Appointment", "She Was Once My Friend", "I Need Time" [recorded 1967]

|align="left"|Crazy Chain

|align="left"|guitar, backing vocals; I Need Time written by Bill Richards and May

|align="left"|Os Paralamas do Sucesso

|align="left"|"El Vampiro Bajo El Sol"

|align="left"|Severino

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|align="left"|Jennifer Rush

|align="left"|"Who Wants to Live Forever"

|align="left"|Out of My Hands

|align="left"|vocals and guitar

|align="left"|Gordon Giltrap

|align="left"|"Heartsong" [recorded 1993]

|align="left"|Music for the Small Screen

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|align="left"|Carmine Appice

|align="left"|"Nobody Knew (Black White House)"

|align="left"|Carmine Appice's Guitar Zeus

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|align="left"|S.O.L. (Stefan Zauner)

|align="left"|"Make My Dream Come True"

|align="left"|S.O.L. – Some Other Language

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|align="left"|Status Quo

|align="left"|"Raining in My Heart"

|align="left"|Don't Stop

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|align="left"|Rock Therapy

|align="left"|"Reaching Out"

|align="left"|Reaching Out
(single; for the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre)

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|align="left"|Steve Hackett

|align="left"|"Slot Machine" (recorded 1986)

|align="left"|Feedback '86

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|align="left"|Tony Iommi

|align="left"|"Goodbye Lament" (featuring Dave Grohl), "Flame On" (featuring Ian Astbury)

|align="left"|Iommi

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|align="left"|Freddie Mercury

|align="left"|"She Blows Hot and Cold (Alternative Version)" (recorded 1984)

|align="left"|The Solo Collection (box set)

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|align="left"|Foo Fighters

|align="left"|Have a Cigar

|align="left"|Mission: Impossible 2 (soundtrack)

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|align="left"|Michael Kamen

|align="left"|"Light the Fire Within"

|align="left"|unreleased; official theme of the 2002 Winter Olympics

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|align="left"|Claire Sweeney

|align="left"|"Too Much Love Will Kill You"

|align="left"|Claire

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|align="left"|Foo Fighters

|align="left"|"Tired of You"

|align="left"|One by One

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|align="left"|The Yardbirds

|align="left"|"Mr. You're a Better Man Than I"

|align="left"|Birdland

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|align="left"|Tim Staffell

|align="left"|"Earth", "Doin' Alright"

|align="left"|Amigo

|align="left"|guitar & vocals

|align="left"|Zucchero

|align="left"|"Il mare impetuoso al tramonto salì sulla luna e dietro una tendina di stelle..."

|align="left"|Zu & Co.

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|align="left"|Meat Loaf

|align="left"|"Bad for Good"

|align="left"|Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose

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|align="left"|Lynn Carey Saylor

|align="left"|"We Belong"{{cite web |url=http://lynncareysaylor.com/WeBelongVideo.html |title=Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist |publisher=Lynn Carey Saylor |access-date=2012-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205221601/http://lynncareysaylor.com/WeBelongVideo.html |archive-date=5 February 2012 |url-status=dead }}

|align="left"|You Like It Clean

|align="left"|guitar & background vocals

|align="left"|Guns N' Roses

|align="left"|"Catcher in the Rye (Demo)"

|align="left"|Chinese Democracy (Sessions)

|align="left"|Uncredited guitar Solo

|align="left"|Minako Honda

|align="left"|"Amazing Grace (Traditional) Produced by Brian May"

|align="left"|Eternal Melody

|align="left"|Arrangement, backing vocals, keyboards, toy koto, production

| style="text-align:left;" rowspan="2"|Kerry Ellis

|align="left"|"Defying Gravity", "I'm Not that Girl", "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)"

|align="left"|Wicked in Rock

|align="left"|Arrangement, bass, guitars, keys, production, programming

|align="left"|"Dangerland", "Anthem", "I Can't Be Your Friend (This Can't Be Over)", "Defying Gravity", "I'm Not that Girl", "You Have to Be There", "Love It When You Call", "Save Me", "Diamonds Are Forever", "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)", "I Loved a Butterfly"

|align="left"|Anthems

|align="left"|Arrangement, backing vocals, bass, guitars, piano, keyboards, production

|align="left"|Taylor Hawkins and the Coattail Riders

|align="left"|"Way Down", "Don't Have to Speak"

|align="left"|Red Light Fever

|align="left"|guitar

|align="left"|Meat Loaf

|align="left"|"Love Is Not Real", "The Song of Madness"

|align="left"|Hang Cool Teddy Bear

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|align="left"|Tangerine Dream

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|align="left"|Starmus – Sonic Universe

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|align="left"|Lady Gaga

|align="left"|"You and I"

|align="left"|Born This Way

|align="left"|guitar

|align="left"|Motörhead

|align="left"|"The Devil"

|align="left"|Bad Magic

|align="left"|guitar solo

|align="left"|Woman

|align="left"|"I'm a Woman"

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|align="left"|guitar & production

|align="left"|Prince's Trust Gala Concert

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|align="left"|Prince's Trust Rock Gala (VHS; recorded live on 6 June 1988 at the Royal Albert Hall)

|align="left"|guitar (bass by Deacon)

|align="left"|Pavarotti and Friends

|align="left"|"Too Much Love Will Kill You", "La donna è mobile"

|align="left"|(recorded live in Modena on 27 September 1992)

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|align="left"|The Strat Pack

|align="left"|"Peggy Sue", "Maybe Baby", "I Fought the Law", "Oh Boy!", "That'll Be the Day" (with The Crickets and Albert Lee); "All Right Now" (with Paul Rodgers)

|align="left"|The Strat Pack: Live in Concert (DVD; recorded live at the concert from the 50th Anniversary of the Fender Stratocaster guitar, 24 September 2004)

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