There’s a new WOMAN in the life of legendary Queen guitarist Brian May and it is all in aid of a very good cause, Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Queen legend Brian May has confirmed the upcoming release of a charity single, performed by sensational singers WOMAN and accompanied by May’s guitar.
The WOMAN supergroup features four of rock musical theatre’s most powerful female voices and ‘We Will Rock You’ alumni – Mazz Murray, Kerry Ellis, Gina Murray and Anna-Jane Casey.
Together May and WOMAN have created a storming blues rock version of famed songwriter duo Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller’s classic 1962 ‘I’m A Woman’, originally made famous by Peggy Lee. This special 2020 cover on which May performs as well as producing, is released in Breast Cancer Awareness Month to support the work of two leading women’s cancer charities – Target Ovarian Cancer and The Caron Keating Foundation, the latter being the family run cancer charity in memory of the much loved TV personality that was established by her mother Gloria Hunniford, and Caron’s two brothers.
WOMAN’s “I’m A Woman” track featuring Brian May’s guitars is available as a digital download this Friday October 23, click here to pre-order and with CD and Vinyl sin-gle versions also available to pre-order from here.
The track’s inspiration was to create something special in the memory of Rebekah Gibbs, another female West End star. The British actress became a household name in TV soap ‘Casualty’ before she was diagnosed with Grade 3 breast cancer in 2009, and tragically died in 2014.
WOMAN first teamed up with Brian May for a performance of “I’m A Woman” at the “Pinktober Women of Rock Charity Concert” at the Royal Albert Hall in London in November 2009 which supported the Caron Keating Foundation.
Long viewed as a positive statement for female reliance, in this 2020 Brian May pro-duced guitar driven and deliciously playful vocals version, I’M A WOMAN today stands as a POWERFUL proclamation.
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