Following a decision to reduce four gendered prize categories to two gender-neutral prizes, Brian May, guitarist of the famous group Queen, attacked the management of the BRIT Awards, a major gala of the musical world which is in Grande -Brittany what the Grammys are in the United States.
In an interview with the newspaper earlier this week The MirrorMay called the decision rash and said she was “appalled that we now have to calculate everything.”
Read Brian May’s interview at The Mirror
According to the 74-year-old guitarist, his old friend Freddie Mercury, who died in 1991, would not have appreciated this movement. “Freddie was from Zanzibar. He was not British. He was not white. And nobody cared. He was our brother and we never wondered whether or not to work with him by wondering about the color of his skin or his sexual orientation. “
Earlier this week, the BRIT Awards announced that the “Male Solo Artist” and “Female Solo Artist” of the Year categories were merged into one category: Artist of the Year. The same goes for the international section, which will have a single gender-neutral prize: international artist of the year.
With or without Brian May, the next BRIT Awards gala will take place on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 at the O2 arena in London and will be broadcast on ITV.