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The Breakfast of Champions.
The “hairy cornflake”
himself Sir Brian May, known mainly for his long-maned
guitar skills as one (hairy) half of rock four
piece Queen, has revealed a long hidden talent
for painting paintings while wearing a ponytail
and the hirsute hanging of his art on gallery
walls.
Yes! It would seem that the
frizzy-headed Bohemian rapsodian has put down
his guitar and picked up a banana, had a bite
of it and then put that down again and picked
up a paintbrush, and started painting with it.
And now his first finished work is to be unveiled
at a gallery, next month.
Entitled The Breakfast of Champions
the painting depicts Brian himself together with
his Queen chums Roger Daltry and Joey Deacon,
enjoying a final breakfast together around Freddie
Mercury’s deathbed.
The fab four can clearly be
seen (albeit in the ‘impressionist’
style) chowing down on some pop tarts, with Brian
and Roger on strawberry, Deacon on blueberry and
Freddie sucking up some liquefied chocolate pop
tarts through a straw.
“I got the idea from The Last Supper,”
May told Idiotica. “Freddie was a bit like
Jesus, in a way, and we’re like his disciples.
He gave us the miracle of rock, and we followed
him. And then he got AIDS and died, and we followed
Ben Elton instead.”
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