Brian May’s new single to have first play at Nasa

By Press Association

December 19 2018, 11:19am

Brian May (Jane Barlow/PA)

Brian May’s new single will premiere at Nasa.

The Queen guitarist, 71, is releasing his first solo work in over two decades, New Horizons, a “tribute” to the spacecraft of the same name.

The single, being released digitally, will air for the first time at Nasa, in Maryland in the US, on New Year’s Day.

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EPISODE 2 !! New Horizons sneak preview. Episode 3 is under construction ! And the full song will be unleashed on New Years Day, during the encounter of the New Horizons probe with Kuiper Belt Object MU 69 – Ultima Thule. To see Episode 1 – the launch – please revisit my IG feed about 18 posts ago ! And please search and visit the NASA New Horizons site. Thanks John Miceli for mighty drums. Thanks Kris Fredriksson for genius protools video work. And thanks Alan Stern ! Remember, folks, you can ‘reverse pinch’ your fingers on the phone screen to zoom in and see what’s going on here more clearly. Cheers all – Bri
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Spacecraft New Horizons is on course for a flyby of the Ultima Thule object on January 1, when it is expected to break its own record for humanity’s most distant tour of a cosmic object.

The track will be May’s first official solo single since Why Don’t We Try Again, in 1998.

He said: “For me it’s been an exciting challenge to bring two sides of my life together – astronomy and music.”

May, who has a doctorate in astrophysics, has been releasing clips of the track on Instagram and Twitter.