Brian May’s setup is simple, but, thanks to his home-built guitar, unique. Essentially though, he’s using the Red Special guitar through a Dallas Rangemaster treble booster into a Vox AC30 amp. The chances are, you don’t own any of these, but any blues-rockoriented amp will get you a usable overdrive tone. Dial in enough gain to allow the single notes to sustain, but not so much that the chords become mushy. Brian also uses the guitar volume pot to clean up the sound in the intro of this song, so check that your tone cleans up too. Brian’s pick of choice is an old English sixpence – a modern five pence will suffice for that clink of metal on metal. You can also add a subtle chorus effect to give the tone some added Queen character.