{"id":259092,"date":"2026-01-30T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259092\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:21:07","slug":"queen-will-never-tour-america-again-says-guitarist-brian-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/259092\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen will never tour America again, says guitarist Brian May"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last time May and drummer Roger Taylor, 76, played live together was in September 2025 when they performed Bohemian Rhapsody at the Last Night of the Proms, marking the hit single\u2019s 50th anniversary. The duo were accompanied by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and theatrical tenor Sam Oladeinde on vocals.<\/p>\n

May, who suffered a stroke in 2024 which caused a loss of control in his left arm, but from which he has now recovered, recently vowed to never perform at Glastonbury because of culling of badgers on Worthy Farm, the festival site in Somerset, southwest England.<\/p>\n

The We Will Rock You hitmaker, who founded the Save Me Trust<\/a> which campaigns for the rights of foxes and badgers, said: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t do Glastonbury next year because of the politics of the people who run it. Unless that changes, I won\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey like killing badgers, and they think it\u2019s for sport and that\u2019s something I cannot support because we\u2019ve been trying to save these badgers for years, and they are still being killed for years, so that\u2019s the reason we\u2019re missing out on it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glastonbury founder and dairy farmer Sir Michael Eavis, 90, previously branded May a \u201cdanger to farming\u201d and criticised him for his opposition to the badger cull, which is aimed at preventing the spread of bovine tuberculosis in cattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last time May and drummer Roger Taylor, 76, played live together was in September 2025 when they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6030,12587,17517,5159,23552,2841,8452,156,28710,305,13607,7810,4505,13631,111,139,69,13018,6744,3366,312,208,1533],"class_list":["post-259092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-again","tag-america","tag-because","tag-brian","tag-claimed","tag-country","tag-dangerous","tag-entertainment","tag-guitarist","tag-have","tag-intentions","tag-may","tag-moment","tag-never","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-performing","tag-place","tag-queen","tag-says","tag-tour","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}