In the Queen 's birthday honours list of 2005 , he was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire " for services to the music industry and for charity work " . In the same year he played the guitar in the song '' Il mare ... '' of the Italian singer Zucchero Fornaciari , in his album '' Zu & Co. '' , and he took part in the concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London held in May 2004 , with the other guests of the Italian bluesman . May was a celebrity guest at the Genesis reunion concert at Twickenham Stadium in 2007 . May and Genesis frontman Phil Collins had worked together on two previous occasions , at The Prince 's Trust Rock Gala in 1988 and the Party at the Palace in 2002 , when Collins had played drums with Queen . In 2011 he contributed to a feature about Collins for '' FHM '' , praising him as " a great guy and an amazing drummer "
Party at the Palace
Party at the Palace
Brian May