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  • @KarazhanIsCake I dont want to live on this planet anymore.

  • eargasm.

  • How Mega was that i joined the Army 3 days after had that guitar in my head all the way to basic!!! was a truly fantastic party.

  • @KarazhanlsCake The American national anthem is based on an old English song from the 1300's about bread :P

  • @ClinicallyObeseMule I always thought America's national anthem should be "We Will Rock You" followed immediately by "We Are the Champions (of the World)" :3

  • @ClinicallyObeseMule Nah - USA's national anthem should be "Jesus he knows me" ;)

  • The Divine Guitar and The God Of Guitars

  • That gave me such an awesome feeling. So glad I was alive to watch it on live TV aswell.

  • @Madt001 I was gutted i mist it. But everytime i watch it i get goosebumps haha

  • I'm very proud to be British right now :).

    Rock on Brian May! :D

  • 4 people misclicked....

  • Wheres Jimi Hendrix when you need him? This was gorgeous though.

  • @KarazhanIsCake The American song has only been around since the 1830s. This was the British national anthem almost 100 years earlier, and had been around in the UK for decades longer than that too. I like the American song too though :))

  • @KarazhanIsCake sounds like jelouse to me pal

  • @KarazhanIsCake yet again you are a very boring cunt so fuck off please!!!!!

  • @KarazhanIsCake you do realize that the copyright on it has ran out so no copyright infringement, as they have limits, and it is British not American, you might want to get your facts straight around 1745 the first real version, with the keyboard piece dating around 1619 both before America was even a country

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  • ...ohhhh....i get CHILLS.......

  • he is playing the hell outta that

  • put that over the airways before you play an ashes game & it'll blow any oposition away

  • Royal as ever Dr May !

  • brilliant

  • "The day rock and roll became acceptable" lol

  • too many middle aged men in their leather jackets on this comments page

  • I hope so much that they do this for the London 2012 opening ceremony.

    Mind you, they might so something like this cause they had Jimmy Page, another legend, at the Beijing closing ceremony.

  • I actually just wept...

    What a great way to show off London and the magnificence of Queen.

    God Save the Queen. WONGA!

  • If there was ever a kick-ass moment in the history of Rock & Roll, this is one.

  • That is totally on fire! Absolutely marvellous!

  • lol, reminds me of the Hard Rock version of the Star Spangled Banner by Boston.

    I think that every nation should have a rock and roll version of their national anthem

  • @SmashingJack420 I think you are forgetting hendrix

  • Guitar bad-ass

  • He should have been knighted for this.

  • @adicts89  HERE!!! HERE!!! HERE!!!!

  • come on england 

  • @youtoobeiz4loosers please feel free to piss off to France.

  • @mab2101 thank you for confirming that particular liberty of mine. what a kind person you are.

  • Legendary. Nuff said.

  • best two things in the world england and queen!!

  • Sir Brian May.

  • Hail King May !!!

  • Brian May is literally a God of rock, a legendary guitarist. His Red Special guitar is another world. In my opinion the best guitarist in the universe. GOD SAVE THE BRIAN MAY: D

  • just magic, Brian is a God

  • that guitar is singing! :D

    GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!!!!!!!

  • yes God save the Queen Elizabeth....but why God could not save Freddie Mercury in 1991???

  • ...Just because it was Freddie's time to go home, therefore hun. ;-)

  • Reason #467 i dont believe in a god

  • Wow, this is cool!! Brian is a true Legend

  • Ha ha the guy banging on the gong!!

  • Like everybody else, I got CHILLS. Hail, Brian May, King of Guitar Licks! This was BEAUTIFUL!!!

  • wow man this gave me shivers...GOD SAVE THE QUEEN

  • what a moment for brian

  • When Brian made the guitar together with his father about 40 years ago, none of them in their wildest dreams could think that he would stand on the roof of Buckingham Palace and play the antheme at this jubilee. God bless!!

  • GOD SAVE BRIAN MAY!

  • Now this... this is really "Cool Britannia"

  • Absolutely Brilliant!!!

    If you are patriot , it is enough to get the hairs on your neck standing up and giving you goose bumps.

    What a guitarist Brian May is.

  • France DESTROYED her past selling off art reasures, looting the tombs of kings and queens; READ your history and educate yourself. The Brits treasure and preserve their past. The French are on their fifth republic, founded in 1958!!! Can you imagine!! We Americans out them to shame as well.

  • fairgirl7

    France has much of its past still intact and indeed has a very long past. This is why hoards of American tourists visit it every year.

    Let's not forget that America was founded on Indian slaughter (destroying that past ) and of course slave labour.

    (I have no grudge against Americans whatsoever but every country has some violence in its past).

  • Every nation is founded on slaughtering the people that came before them. The celts killed the people that once lived in England. The Romans killed the celts. The Saxons killed the Romans. The Normans killed the Saxons. The Normans killed the French and Indians.

  • French and Indians ?

  • Yes, when they landed in North America Normans = modern day English.

  • what democracy is the uk that its own national athem is a clear allusion to religion? as a democracy the national symbols and leaders should be laicity.

  • Britain is a Christian Kingdom which respects its heritage and past. That is why it has the greatest consitutional monarchy and the Mother of Parliaments. Unlike the revolutionaries across the channel who destroyed and ignored their past and now are on their FIFTH republic!

  • i don't know then which country you are talking about. And i am sure that a republic does not ignores or destroys the past, it is still remembered and praised throughout the days.

    now go to work and pay your taxes so your "royal" family gets a luxury life while you're a nobody.

  • Jimmy Hendrix, American Guitarist, born in Seattle, Washington. It's a bit awkerd comparison according to Britain Anthem Brian May was playing for his own country. It's not about who plays better. Brian May is one of the best guitarist in your country, isn't he? You must be proud to have him.

  • SHINYamAHA21;

    Brian May is undoubtedly a very skilled guitarist but he could have insisted on extending the anthem a bit using his artistry to produce a variation somewhere within it and therefore use its potential for a more exciting rendition.

    He just played it straight;

    (I'm not suggesting that he should have used sounds which suggest destruction as Hendrix did either.! I heard a female British reporter at the time describing May's "solo" as "naff")

  • B May has been that way. He's almost never shown exciting dramatic jesture. The way how he plays crazy guitar i mean good guitar almost boring to watch but it was backing up Freddie's entertaining spotlight. If Page or Hendrix were a guitarist in a Queen group, it was no good for Freddie. B May has his own style...I guess too tall, heavy belly? haha

  • I agrre with you but i do belive that his freedom to "extend" the Royal hymn was restricted. I think there will be only two rockperformances on the Buckinghamroof ever. Brian May was the first AND the last(that makes two)

  • Woodstock was not a national government event. It was a hippie festival. This is for the Queen, not a bunch of people tripping on acid.

  • BRIAN MAY!

  • I love this; it's so over the top!

  • sicazzo brian may!!!

  • MAESTRO ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

  • i cant help at thinking that the queen must be sick of this song

  • Fuckin awesome! :D

  • This is a music video man. No one wants to discuss the practicalities or influence of the monarchical system while listening to Brian May kicking ass, so fuck off

  • london 2012 opener for sure

  • well, Ladies and Gentleman please rise,

    Brian may´s great perfomance

    GREAT CLIP and the BEST VERSION on youtube you can find

  • It was this very performance that inspired me to learn to play the National Anthem.

    It still gives me goose bumps everytime I hear this.

  • Super, Brian May ist der geilste

  • Holy fuckin monkeyshitballs

    THAT WAS AWESOME!

  • That has got to be one of the best performances of ANY national anthem I have EVER seen! I remember watching it live and my mum and I just sitting there gobsmacked! Brilliant!

  • doesn't get any better than that does it? Who reckons Brian should play the opening and closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympics? - now that will be one hell of a show that Britain can really be proud of.

  • @ChrisLR2 Yep that would be great.

  • One of the best guitar players ever imho ;d

  • Wasn't that Rodger on the far right at 1:31?

  • yes that is roger taylor

  • she wont be queen though. shes a divorcee. and besides well just rename it god save the king

  • under current legislation,it would require an Act of Paliament for her not to be queen. Charles actively wants her to be queen and anyone who stops it or trys to will be risking alot.The only way she wont be queen is if the entire british public actively speak out and say no.i dont think they will be bothered.Long Live Queen Camilla,haahaha, monarchys are so stupid.Imagine the president marrying some cleaner woman and suddenly she becomes a ruler of the country,even tho,no one voted. lol idiots!

  • The monarchy is constitutional. If she tried to do anything that the British public did not like, ie take away our freedom of speech and other what not, the royal family will be out the window, so she cant really do much anyway. She is their because we want her to be, atleast most of us anyway.

  • my point is that you dont get to choose who replaces any of them. Sh*t way to live. Basically a dictatorship.

  • how exactly is it a dictatorship. Parliament decides our laws and statutes. in theory the monarchy could veto a bill but in practice they cant otherwise parliament could abolish the monarchy.

  • because you dont choose your head of state.

  • Awesome! Is the only word I can grasp from my lexicon. As a UnitedStatesian trapped in a Canadian's body, this rendition really rocks from the solar system to the ends of the known universe! God Save Our Noble Queen indeed!!!

  • How can you hate his hair? It rocks!

  • U MUST BE JOKING!

  • WOW!

  • ha!! the lion statues were holding les pauls!!!! ROFL!!!!!

  • Fucking awsome! God save the Queen!

  • Finally! one thats got the whole song and with out tht annoying foreigner woman ruining it by talking!! :-)

  • It's an epic song when played by electric guitar.

  • there should be a law passed in parliament that god save the queen should only ever be played by brian may lol

  • I totally agree!!

  • fuck yea

  • Let's do a petition for it lol

  • Can I slightly amend that?

    On Electric Guitar and in a public setting such as Buckingham Palace the National Anthem should ONLY be played by Brian May.

  • i can compromise. imagine trooping the colour and changing the guard to this........pure epic thatl bring in the tourists

  • You're absolutely right

  • every national anthem is epic when its played with a guitar!

  • Fucking amazing and cool jacket with the tracks of songs he wrote on it.

  • haha i was about 2 comment saying has anyone else noticed his jacket!

    on the first close up u can see johnny be good and purple haze =D

    does any1 else get shivers down their spine when he hits those first few notes!!????

    EPIC!

  • Ke genio...

  • That is awesome; is this the performance that opened the show?

  • Yeah! To my knowledge, I think this is the only time Brian has ever played this live too - I might be wrong on that, but I'm reasonably sure!

  • No, you are right...

    GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!!!

  • Great stuff oh sweet guitar!

    God save the Queen!!

  • bloody fucking awesome!

  • Cwor! That was pretty powerful stuff. Nice one, Brian.

  • GOD SAVE THE QUEEN !!

  • Awesome!!

  • Hail The Queen!!

  • Not just great,All-glorious! Unique! Super of supers!Thanks Constantinop!

  • Great Video!

  • God Save The Queen!!!!

  • God save our queen from terrorists and muslims.

  • vaffanculo brian, sei una fottutissima leggenda!!!...

    ...strepitoso!!!!!!!!! :D

  • @mazzimezzimu figlio ti puttana stronzo

  • @pignitter guarda ke stai equivocando, era un modo (un po' insolito) di esprimere la mia ammirazione verso brian may. io ne sono un gran fan!

  • This is THE kickass moment in British rock and roll. Dr. May rules! God Save The Queen, indeed...

  • Brian is a f**king legend. I love him, he is the original guitar hero, then its slash, they have very similar styles

  • Brian is my HERO:)

  • UFO allert watch the vid there is something in the sky at 45 seconds left hand side of his head as the cam turns it goes behined brians head

  • It's the helicopter getting the arial shots

  • Oh man.

    That is beyond awesome.

    Brian rules the world.

    Or should, anyway.

  • Brian May is a guitar god.

  • AWSOME! Sometimes i wish i was british! :D I wish we could have the same "royalism" in Sweden :/

  • Bow before Dr May! We are not worthy! Haha! Awesome vid =]

  • AWSOMENESS

  • goosebumps!!!

  • Absolutely spectacular, brilliant and epic! Sends shivers down my spine.

  • makes me proud to british 4 nations in one union under one flag.

  • They can still put on quite a show, even without Freddie...

  • awsome

  • Damn, this is enough to make a monarchist out of you.

    Send me to the Zodiacal Cloud!

  • thats the title of the song that the group QUEEN play everytime they finish the concert got it?

  • Slight description error dude. This is the queens golden jubilee. Other than that, this is in the same league as Jimi Hendrix doing Woodstock.

  • fixed , thanks, cheers.

  • it's grown on me.... it's pretty epic.

  • I couldnt agree more xD

  • finally! a video without some dumb bitch sying crap over the guitar.

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