RECENT killings in the US mean it it now too dangerous for Queen to tour there, according to guitarist Brian May.
A big part of the legendary British band’s breathrough in the 1970s was cracking America but May, 78, says that’s all changed in the wake of ICE’s killings of Rene Good and Alex Pretti.
“America is a dangerous place at the moment, so you have to take that into account,” May told the Daily Mail.
“It’s very sad because I feel like Queen grew up in America and we love it, but it’s not what it was. Everyone is thinking twice about going there at the moment.”
May has also said he would refused to play the high profile Glastonbury Festival in his homeland because of the political stance of the promoters. But he’s not talking Israel or Trump – he’s talking badgers.
‘They like killing badgers,” May said in the same interview, “and they think it’s for sport and that’s something I cannot support because we’ve been trying to save these badgers for years and they are still being killed for years, so that’s the reason we’re missing out on it.”
The founder of Glastonbury is 90-year-old dairy farmer Michael Eavis, who has described May as a “danger to farming” because of his animal rights stance.
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