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Thank
you. What a night. What a lineup. What a
talent. Your majesties, your highnesses,
excellencies, ladies and
gentlemen. When we started our band in
1970 in and around the colleges of
London University, we had ambitions but
never dreamed of the journey that was to
follow.
We were fortunate in the fact that our
four wildly different
personalities came together to achieve a
wonderful
chemistry. What was an incredible trip
around the world and the cities of the
world through so many triumphs and
twists of fortune in so many countries
came to a tragic halt with the loss of
our dear Freddy Mercury.
This was a hammer blow especially to
John Deacon our bass player who found he
couldn't go
on. So depleted by 50% uh Brian and
myself determined to keep our m music
alive and with the help of wonderful
singers like Paul Rogers and of course
the great Adam Lambert um yeah we
continued to tour the world to this
present
day. The Polar Music Prize is
exceptional in the fact that unlike
other awards, it recognizes the entirety
of an artist's career unlike any others.
I think what an honor to be included in
this glittering cavalcade of previous
laureates. True Olympian company
indeed. We are so proud to be the
recipients of this incredibly
prestigious award. also to share the
stage with these wonderful other two
laurates, Herby Hancock and and Barbara
Hanakan. We are honored and proud. We
thank you, Brian.
Your majesties, your
highnesses, excellencies, ladies and
gentlemen, thank you all so much for
honoring Queen in this
way. Sweden has already been very kind
to us over the years and this really is
the icing on the cake. What a wonderful
privilege. And I didn't realize what it
was going to feel like to to accept
award in the company of Barbara Hanigan
and Herby Hancock. It's beyond such an
honor for Queen. Swedish audiences
actually have been one of the most
loyally supportive uh in the world ever
since we first played in Goththingberg
in 1974.
And we all got our
clogs. Some of us still have
them. In this special moment, I
contemplate how that younger Brian May
in 1974 would have felt if he knew that
we would be living this kind of dream 50
years in the future. It would have been
almost unimaginable to
me. While we as an emerging young rock
band were away on these early Queen
tours, my dad, Harold May, back home
used to create beautiful maps of our
journeys around the the globe. Of
course, my dad actually disapproved very
strongly of what I was doing. He was
heartbroken that I'd thrown my life
away, my scientific career, in order to
play rock music. His dream was for me to
get what he called a proper job.
It's too late
now. But of course, my dad, forgive me
talking about him, my dad was the one
who sat with me night after night when I
was 17 in his little workshop in our
house, creating with our bare hands the
homemade guitar, the red special that
was to be my companion all the way
around the world many times in the
future, including here, of course.
And from being a very disapproving
parent, eventually when I finally flew
him out to see us in Madison Square
Garden, he took my hand and said, "Okay,
I get it
now." Which is lovely. So, my dad's long
gone now, but I kind of feel he's here
with us tonight in Stockholm. So, I've
never done this before, but tonight I
would like to share my quarter of this
magnificent prize with my dad, Harold
May. Thank you, Dad.
and and
and on behalf of Freddy and John, my
dear friend Roger and myself, thank you
Sweden tent tuck spalier.
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