May, compuso canciones para todos los álbumes y varios de los éxitos mundiales de la banda, como "We Will Rock You, "Tie Your Mother Down", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "Keep Yourself Alive", "Who Wants to Live Forever?", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me", "I Want it All", "The Show Must Go On" y "No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)"