- I Am Not Spock: Before happily embracing the Queen name since the late 90's, there was a period of almost a decade when Brian wanted to dissociate himself from the Queen name and brand as much as possible, and he tried to launch a career as a singer. It backfired, as he was still seen as "the guitarist of Queen". When he did a track live where he only sang and didn't play any instruments, the audience's reaction was polite at best; when he played a guitar solo instead, people would overwhelmingly cheer him. He eventually embraced that and gradually returned to being primarily a guitarist, and he's been producing a few singers instead of himself being one (though, to be fair, he still does a lot of backing vocals and the occasional lead).
- Referenced by...: A sample from one of May's concerts is featured in the David Bowie song "Segue – Ramona A. Stone/I Am with Name".
- Renaissance Man: Decades after leaving university to form Queen, May returned to Imperial College London to earn his doctorate in astrophysics. He is, as a rock star who is also an accredited scientist who has aided in the launch of numerous space probes, quite possibly the closest that Real Life has come to Buckaroo Banzai, with all the awesome that deserves.
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