May tells of ‘emotional’ time returning to 1998 album scene
BRIAN May has spoken about the “emotional” experience of returning to film a music video in the location that featured on the cover of his 1998 album Another World.
The album, the Queen guitarist’s second solo effort, has been reissued as part of his Gold Series campaign, which also saw his debut solo album 1992’s Back To The Light, originally recorded and released during Queen’s final years with Freddie Mercury, reissued last year.
The 74-year-old has now also released
Otro Lugar, a Spanish language version of the track Another
World, which is also accompanied by a music video filmed earlier this year on location in Tenerife, La Palma and El Hierro, part of the Canary Islands.
The music video sees May visiting Tenerife’s Teide Observatory and also features a tree found in El Sabinar, in La Dehesa, which was on the album cover of Another World when it was released more than two decades ago.
May said: “It was very emotional, that tree means a lot to me, it’s a kind of symbol to me apart from its natural beauty.
“It represents the way an organism, a plant or a tree or a person in difficult circumstances has to bend or else it will break.
“And this tree has adapted to its situation where the prevailing winds are always strong and always in the same direction.
“It’s bent over, it looks like a woman to me always with the hair streaming in the wind.”