However, while the band in its heyday was known for its unabashed hedonism, May at 59, with an estimated fortune of £75m, now appears more interested in the settling of scores.
Up to half-a-dozen times a day May is updating his personal blog on his official website, with swipes at bogus fans who want autographs only to sell on eBay, his frustrations with his overheating home computer, and his reflections on astronomy, a subject which he once studied for a PhD.
And after this piece was published in yesterday's Sunday Times, Brian wrote:
My Goodness - so that's what a 'Sunday Times Social Affairs Correspondent' does all day, to earn a crust. He spends hours sifting through back-pages of Bri's Soapbox, cutting and pasting chunks of it into his feature of the day. Easy money, I'd say ! Hi there, John Elliott ! Try this bit ! What was it now, "We Will, We Will Plagiarise You" ? With a slight whiff of condescension ? Well, at least you have made my voice reach a little further, for which I thank you. You gave my words an echo, albeit a selective one. No mention in your piece, I see, of the attention I drew to your paper's inaccuracies of last week ?! Oh, by the way, I was ranting on my 'Soapbox' long before any of us heard of the word 'blog'. And with me, it's hobby. And a passion. (Along with the frivolous songs.) But you ? You're making money out of my writings ! Well, clever ol' you.
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