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Brian May has paid tribute to Queen's first manager Norman Sheffield after he died last month.
Sheffield, who managed the band back in the early '70s, died in June aged 74, following a battle with cancer.
He began his career performing with the band The Hunters as well as Cliff Richard in the '50s, before opening Trident recording studios in London, which hosted the recording of David Bowie's 'Space Oddity' and The Beatles' 'Hey Jude'.
Sheffield went on to manage Queen for three years between 1972 and 1975, before the relationship broke down. The Queen song 'Death On Two Legs' is widely reported to be about the band's fall out with Sheffield.
In a message on his official website yesterday (9 July), the band's guitarist Brian May paid tribute to the manager, writing: "Sad to report the passing of Queen's first manager, Norman Sheffield. We had our differences of course, but, in the Grand Scheme of Things, all the water had long since flowed under the bridge. Our sincere condolences to his family. RIP Norman."
Sheffield and Queen briefly reunited when the band recorded the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' video with one of his companies.
