BRIAN MAY Reveals What MICHAEL JACKSON COPIED From QUEEN

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Sir Brian May has shared a Michael Jackson encounter in which the King of Pop was inspired by Freddie Mercury and Queen's live performances.
Michael Jackson famously gave Queen some incredible advice regarding one of their new tracks. Jackson was convinced Another One Bites the Dust, with its popular disco sound, would top the charts – and it did. In fact, it went on to become Queen’s best-selling single with over 7 million copies sold.

And just as MJ inspired Queen, so had they for him, when he came to watch one of their live performances. Brian May made the reveal in a recent episode of Queen the Greatest Live.

The latest episode looks back at the band’s incredible use of lighting in their iconic shows. Back then they were illuminated by the infamous “pizza oven” rig, which proved to be a very difficult test for the band.

Sir Brian said: “In those days, they were hot, they were incandescent, all of them, they were all tungsten. And when it came down, it was pretty much like a pizza oven. And Roger used to get frightened. There was smoke coming off his stool when he went off for the encore. I don't quite how we survived that!” But it was another groundbreaking lighting set-up that caught the attention of Michael Jackson.

May added: “We also had a different set-up where we had lights in pods, and in each pod there was a man running it and operating it so you could actually interact with these pods. And there's some footage of me doing the guitar solo and playing to the pod and sort of moving it. It would sort of interact with me and talk to me when I'm playing. That was a lot of fun. Michael Jackson saw that and said, 'I want that!' And he did!”

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