Brian has beforehand spoken out about his late buddy “all the time being with them”. In a 2020 chat with Japanese outlet Asahi Shimbun forward of a tour of Japan with Adam Lambert he stated: “Sure, it’s one thing all of us really feel, definitely Roger and I really feel it, sure.

“Generally when folks ask you a query, we’ve got a sense we’d know what Freddie would say. It isn’t as a result of he was predictable, however we type of know his unpredictability.

“And, after all, he was like a brother to us, so we all know him very, very properly.

“We created this entire situation which is Queen; this entire style, this entire oeuvre if you’ll of Queen music.”

“And it’s great that folks at the moment are discovering it in much more element now than they did up to now.

“So Freddie is all the time with us. He has to as a result of he’s a co-creator.

“There are moments after I really feel unhappy, after all, as a result of he’s not right here to get pleasure from it.

“However largely I really feel nice pleasure that we had this expertise and we had this glorious spectrum of Queen music that we will nonetheless discover and talk and share with a brand new viewers. So it’s feeling I’ve about Freddie.”