Brian May Height - how tall

Rampage(-_-_-)Clover says on 2/Feb/12
He was 1.89m(6ft2.5) prime.
Probably 6ft2 flat now or 1.87m min

Martyr says on 11/Dec/11
I think perspective is not good enough to estimate their height in your two pictures.
Roger WAS near 5'11 anyway. He has always been listed at 179cm, and that's about it. A few years back he still DID look in the 178-180 cm range next to 5'7 Paul Rodgers.

Yaspaa says on 27/Nov/11
He was nowhere near 5'11 peak, he's the same he always was, about 5'9.
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The floor is sloped in May's favour in guyfrommars shot.

guyfrommars says on 27/Oct/11
In their peak, Roger was taller than Freddie and John, both 5'9".

Martyr says on 25/Oct/11
I think Roger has troubles with his hip. He even seemed to have hard times walking at some point during the last queen and paul rodgers tour. That may explain the shrinkage.

Looks like a weak 5'9 now, but I'm pretty sure he was close to 5'11 at peak.

guyfrommars says on 24/Oct/11
It seems Brian still stands tall, while Roger has shrunk a lot:
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Brian is still close to 6'2" at the age of 64, while Roger at 62 is probably closer to 5'8" nowadays than his peak height of 5'10".

Martyr says on 16/Oct/11
Slash is supposed to be 5'10 and Gibbons 5'10.5. Brian sure looks OVER 6'1 in that pic.

DC says on 13/Oct/11
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6'1 sounds about right. The link above is the league of great guitarists; Brian May, Slash 5'8, Billy Gibbons 5'10-ish, Jeff Beck 5'9 and Joe Perry 5'8.

Alex says on 21/Aug/11
I have never seen him with a different hairstyle which makes it kfairly hard to guess his height. He towers over his bandmates in every pic and video, 6'2 without hair seems accurate to me. The other band members all seem to be around 5'9, Roger might be 5'10.

Rampage(-_-_-)Clover says on 15/Jun/11
Might be 187cm nowadays, but in his youth he was at least 6ft2

Martyr says on 12/Jun/11
Don't know about this picture. The angle is weird and does seam to favour Brian, but Peter Freestone (Queen and then Freddie's PA), the guy behind John Deacon (queen's bassplayer, in blue)says he's 6'2, in his memoir.

What do you think?

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Here is another pic with a bunch of people (Mandela is between 5'11 and 6 I guess, and Lennox is probably wearing heels)

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Martyr says on 3/Jun/11
Then again, at the freddie mercury tribute concert (1992), Brian looked at least 2 inches taller than paul young (6'1 at the lowest), robert plant and tony iommi (6')...slouches a lot, 6'3 at peak!

I always thought the 187cm was not reliable...

Mack, the sound engineer looks an inch taller. It'd be interesting to know his height!

Martyr says on 16/Mar/11
Brian always appeared 6'3 to me. in his younger days at least. If Paul Rodgers is 5'7, then I'd say Roger Taylor is about 5'11, and May defintely 6'3...That would put freddie a shade over 5'9 (the height he claimed to be)

Stuart says on 9/Feb/11
I met him at a concert about 10 years ago, i am 6'2 and he was at least 1 inch taller than me and i was wearing trainers/sneakers, .

Jeremy Winton says on 24/Jan/11
I met Brian and he is 190 cm not shorter. He is tower.

krazy krippled! says on 2/Jan/11
I think Brian May doesn't care much for his height, If he towers boot-wearing Yngwie while wearing his trademark tennis shoes he must be 6'3 at least, he is a big sloucher, so it's probable he looks 6'2.

Jojo111 says on 24/Nov/10
brian was the tallest out of all of the members of the queen band and it looked as if freddie was quite tall, id say above 6 feet for sure