02-25-1993 – San Antonio Express-News – Austin, TX

Brian was supporting Guns N’ Roses at the Frank Erwin Center.

Opening act Brian May wrote the “We Will Rock You” segment of Queen’s overplayed 1978 hit, “We Are the Champions.” But the ex-Queen guitarist made up for that gaffe with a splendid, 55-minute set that incorporated Queen’s dense, multilayered sound but left the pretentiousness out.

Playing a half-dozen tracks off his new album, “Back to the Light,” May made only one musical nod to his former band when he worked the hard-rock guitar break in “Bohemian Rhapsody” into an extended version of “Resurrection,” a track off the new album.

And he seemed happy to be back on stage, greeting the crowd with “It’s nice to be back in the land of the living.”