Queen’s Brian May backs anti-Donald Trump campaigners

LONDON - Queen legend Brian May has promised his support for a group of anti-Donald Trump campaigners who want to use the rock band’s greatest hit, Bohemian Rhapsody, in a protest video.

The campaigners wrote to the musician, who now devotes much of his time to environmental and animal welfare issues, for permission to use the song, with suitably amended lyrics, in a video portraying the American tycoon who is building a 750-million-pound golf resort on farmland and protected dunes on the Aberdeenshire coast.

They told May of the threat of compulsory purchase hanging over the homes of four families, including that of 86-year-old Molly Forbes, who lives on the Menie Estate, ten miles north of Aberdeen.

“I can see there is a horrible example here of bullying the defenceless by a rich man who apparently can buy anything he wants,” the Scotsman quoted the guitarist as telling them.

“I deplore this kind of abuse and feel greatly for Molly and the others who are being ridden over by a very selfish man. And what the world certainly does not need is more golf courses. I am disgusted.

“I sincerely hope you will be able to stop this nasty project in its tracks and I will do what I can to bring it a little more out in the open. I’m happy to secure you permission to try this yourself (make a Bohemian Rhapsody video],” he said.

May expressed his sympathy after being contacted by Hazel Cameron, a Scottish poet who, with a group of fellow artists, had come up with the idea of using music to highlight the eviction threat. (ANI)