Posted on 08/29/2019 9:19:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob
You might not care what Keith Richards or Jimmy Page think about Pluto's status as a dwarf planet, but when Queen guitarist Brian May speaks up about it, it's worth a listen.
May, who received his doctorate in astrophysics in 2007, posted his Pluto thoughts on Instagram late Wednesday after hearing about how NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine still thinks of Pluto as a full-on planet.
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) tightened up its definition of a planet in 2006 and demoted Pluto to dwarf-planet status, sparking an ongoing debate that just won't rest. May is on the pro-planet side of the argument.
"Pluto was discovered and named as a planet awhile before I was born," May wrote on Instagram. "At that time it was generally instinctively understood that a planet was one of a family of roughly spherical objects that orbited the sun (rather than orbiting something else)."
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Any truth to the rumor that after someone said Mercury was going to be removed from the list of planets another person said “Another one bites the dust”? /sarc
My FAVORITE guitarist from about 12 to 15.
Still think he plays great but too bad I had to read about his enviro-wackiness.
But the music’s still great.
And Freddy was a fruit and paid the price but recorded some of their very good songs while he was quite ill.
Don’t know if he made peace with God but it must have been tough recording while so sick.
Oh, here’s Death On Two Legs with a spot of humor. Not bad.
He looks a bit like Issac Newton
No Uranus jokes allowed.
Had friends that loved Queen. Not a big fan, but I do possess their Killer Queen live CD. Have the Killer Queen single also. The only other song I love beside KQ is “39”. Brian May did all the falsetto opera-like singing.
I would like to play his guitar.
He and his father built it pretty much from scratch and he has played it all these decades as his main instrument.
They made copies of it so that he can play them in the event he breaks a string.
It’s called the Red Special and he wrote a book about it.
Homo Freddie Mercury did the singing, they just multi tracked his voice.
Ping
39 was the one song from Night at the Opera that was not referenced in the Mercury bio-pic. It seemed like most of the others were played (full or in part) and the rest mentioned. But not 39. Unless the reference was really oblique.
“Freddie Mercury did the singing, they just multi tracked his voice.”
No, they didn’t. I saw them perform. Amazing bunch of musicians no matter what their flaws are.
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"The planets of our solar system incinerating, like fat-bottom girls' flaming globes!" (Sorry, best I could do).
Here it is live.
They roll tape during the choir part.
As for the recording, I’m only repeated what I read more than once.
They multitracked Freddys voice.
Bands do it when recording instruments all the time, when in the studio.
Only song I like from Queen is “I want to break free.”
I also like The December People’s version of I heard the bells on Christmas Day, it’s done in the style of Queen. It’s a fantastic version.
Looks like effing Sir Issac Newton he does eh....
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