Brian May has moved supporters to tears following a recent Instagram post. The Queen guitarist spoke out after he honoured his late bandmate, Queen's frontman Freddie Mercury.

In the post, Brian extended birthday wishes to Freddie the day prior to what would have marked his 78th birthday, reports the Express . Freddie died in November 1991 at just 45 years old, due to AIDS-related complications.

Brian reminisced about the "good days" they had experienced together, saying: "Happy Birthday dear Freddie. PLEASE SWIPE folks. Here's Freddie in 3D, courtesy of my Stereo Realist camera, greeting the world from his balcony in the Munich Hilton, Germany. I'm thinking 1979... good days. Bri."

Freddie would have turned 78 on September 5 (Image: Getty Images)

Admirers flocked to send Brian the

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