Queen rocker Brian May was inundated with support from fans as he took to Instagram with a touching throwback from 1974. The musician shared a touching map that was created by his father, Harold May, to memorialise the Queen II tour across Europe.

Alongside the illustration, the 77-year-old penned: “My Dad’s supportive handiwork for our first Queen tour of Europe… 1974!!! As honoured in Stockholm last night. Love to all – Bri.” The beloved band’s European tour consisted of ten shows in six countries which they performed over a two and a half week period. Thousands of his long-time fans flocked to the comments with support as one wrote: “Oh what a heartfelt map full of love for you, Sir!”

A second remarked: “Wow!! What a treasure!! Can’t you just picture him sitting there, drawing, coloring, marking the routes, all the time thinking proudly, ‘That’s MY boy!’”

Another shared: “I saw and crying, I didn‘t expect than I‘m a small girl at 1994 in Russia, my Papa brought me a CD The Works and told ‘See, this is a good Music’ then a couldn‘t explain my life without Queen music.”

“What beautiful attention to detail your father gave to these maps and what a lovely tribute you gave to him last night. Inspiring word,” remarked a fourth.

This comes after Brian and Queen drummer Roger Taylor were awarded the 2025 Polar Music Prize at a gala ceremony held in Sweden on Tuesday (May 27).

The musicians were honoured for their careers and contribution to music and accepting the award, Brian told the audience: “In this special moment, I contemplate how that younger Brian May in 1974 would have felt if he knew that we would be living this kind of dream 50 years in the future.”

Roger recalled: “When we started our band… we had ambitions, but never dreamed of the journey that was to follow. We were fortunate in the fact that our four wildly different personalities came together to achieve a wonderful chemistry.

“The Polar Music Prize is exceptional in the fact that, unlike other awards, it recognises the entirety of an artist’s career. What an honour to be included in the glittering cavalcade of previous laureates.”

The evening featured live musical performances celebrating Queen’s legacy and the other laureates as rock band Ghost performed a rendition of Bohemian Rhapsody alongside Opeth guitarist Fredrik Akesson.

Queen frontman Adam Lambert then took to the stage to perform the hits Who Wants to Live Forever and Another One Bites the Dust.