I think there's a lot of the Beatles' influence in Queen's music, but there's also a lot of classical influence… I have listened to some of their material and heard Mahler's Choral Symphony deep down in there somewhere. That's one of the beauties and joys of music. The tapestry is laid down for you and then once you have mastered your own instrument you put your own thoughts into the music… that's what so annoys me about the critics in the music papers. I don't know how they manage to write the things that they do. They seem to me to be total morons, although I must say that the critics never worry Brian. Nothing worries Brian. Right from the very beginning of it all, money hasn't interested him at all - he has a total involvement in the music itself. That's always been the only thing that has mattered to him, the music. And, of course, this is something that he grew up with as a child. I was never a professional musician; the only times I've ever played in public were in the school band and in the Air Force during the war when I used to take my ukelele down to the pub - that's the same old ukelele, a genuine “George Formby Uke”, that Brian still plays now when he uses a ukelele on stage with Queen. It's full of beer stains inside from the war days, but Brian still insists that it's got the best sound he's ever heard from a ukelele, although he also uses a little Japanese one which he was presented with there when they were touring Japan. It was on that ukelele that he learned to play and sing his first songs, old George Formby music hall numbers like Cleaning Windows, Leaning on the Lamp-Post, and Chinese Laundry Blues - I taught them all to him. Then he started developing techniques of his own which were remarkably like George Formby's… he also used to play the mouth organ and when he joined the school choir, he used to practise like mad for that. He's always had this interest in anything to do with music; he's taught himself to play tin whistles, the Jew's harp, and when he felt they needed a harp-effect on A Night at the Opera, he went out and bought himself a harp and taught himself to play. He's always had this thing about mastering every instrument… for me the most remarkable thing he's done so far with Queen was that track on A Night at the Opera which he wrote himself, Good Company. Everything we did in making that guitar together can be heard on that track on which he plays ukelele and guitar, and by using a twenty-four-track recorder manages to make his guitar sound like trombones, cellos and piccolos - the whole thing is just him. Anyone who can't appreciate an achievement of that kind must be a musical moron… and to him it is all so satisfying, scientifically.