### **The Man Behind the Wall of Sound: “My Life – My Way” Promises the Unvarnished Brian May**
For decades, the image has been iconic: the wild silver curls, the homemade red guitar, the astronomer’s mind conducting a rock and roll orchestra. But behind the myth of Brian May—the virtuoso, the astrophysicist, the knight—lies a far more complex and private man. Now, in what is being billed as his definitive statement, that man is ready to speak.
The upcoming documentary, **“My Life – My Way,”** is being positioned not as a celebratory career retrospective, but as a **soul-baring confession.** Directed with an intimate, vérité approach, the film promises to bypass the familiar arena footage and instead trace the internal journey: from the shy, asthmatic boy in post-war London who found solace in the stars and six strings, to the reluctant rock god grappling with the seismic pressures of fame, loss, and his own relentless perfectionism.
“This isn’t about legend-building or nostalgia,” states the film’s producer. “It’s about honesty—raw, unfiltered, and unafraid of contradiction.”
The film is said to delve into territories May has often kept guarded: the profound **imposter syndrome** that haunted him even at the height of Queen’s success; the **near-fatal health crises** that forced a brutal confrontation with mortality; the **creative and personal tensions** within Queen that fueled their greatness and their fractures; and the **private grief** of surviving his musical brothers, Freddie Mercury and John Deacon. It will explore the dichotomy of a man equally at home in the rarefied air of academia and the sweat-drenched chaos of a stadium stage.
Crucially, the narrative will be driven **in May’s own voice.** Through a series of sprawling, new interviews shot in locations deeply personal to him—his home studio, his astronomy dome, the quiet of the English countryside—he connects the dots between the boy who built his first guitar from fireplace wood and the elder statesman fiercely advocating for animal rights and environmental stewardship.
The title, *My Life – My Way*, is a defiant claim to authorship. After a lifetime of his story being told through the lens of Beatlemania’s shadow, Freddie’s towering legacy, or the pantheon of rock history, this is May’s opportunity to **reclaim his narrative.**
For fans, it promises the ultimate backstage pass—not to a concert, but to a consciousness. It’s a chance to understand the quiet anxiety behind “We Will Rock You,” the lonely wonder that inspired “’39,” and the resilient heart that insisted *The Show Must Go On*. This is Brian May, not as a guitar hero on a poster, but as a human being: thoughtful, uncompromising, fiercely independent, and finally ready to be seen.
