Queen’s Brian May To Release ‘New Horizons’ Solo Single On New Year’s Day From NASA Control Centre
The song is the guitar legend’s first solo single since ‘Why Don’t We Try Again’ from 1998’s ‘Another World’.
Queen guitarist Brian May has revealed that he will release his first solo single in 20 years – with New Horizons set to drop on New Year’s Day from NASA’s Control Centre.
The guitar legend hasn’t released a solo single since ‘Why Don’t We Try Again’ from 1998’s Another World. Now, the music icon and astrophysics doctor is to release a track in tribute to the on-going NASA New Horizons mission – which will achieve the most distant spacecraft flyby in history on New Year’s Day. The track also features words spoken by the late Stephen Hawking.
“This project has energised me in a new way,” said May in a statement. ” For me it’s been an exciting challenge to bring two sides of my life together – Astronomy and Music. It was Alan Stern, the Project Instigator of this amazing NASA Mission, who threw down the glove last May. He asked if I could come up with a theme for Ultima Thule which could be played as the NH probe reached this new destination.”
May continued: “I was inspired by the idea that this is the furthest that the Hand of Man has ever reached – it will be by far the most distant object we have ever seen at close quarters, through the images which the space craft will beam back to Earth. To me it epitomises the human spirit’s unceasing desire to understand the Universe we inhabit.
“Everyone who has devoted so much energy to this mission since its launch in January 2006 will be feeling they are actually INSIDE that small but intrepid vehicle – only about the size of a grand piano – as it pulls off another spectacular close encounter. And through the vehicle’s ‘eyes’ we will begin to learn, for the very first time, what a Kuiper Belt Object is made of. And pick up precious clues about how our solar system was born.”
New Horizons will be released at 12.02am EST on 1 January 2019 and will available here.
As uDiscover Music previously reported, Queen’s classic Bohemian Rhapsody become the most streamed track from the 20th Century, while the 2018 movie of the same name is now the highest-grossing music biopic of all time.
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