Rock band are preparing to take the stage at the Super Bowl alongside MAGA-despised singer and rapper Bad Bunny

Musician opens up to presenter Zoe Ball about his health, sobriety and extraordinary career for the BBC Eras podcast

Listening to Brian May’s multi-tracked epic on a battered cassette player when I lived in repressive Havana inspired lit a spark of rebellion inside me

Throughout my childhood and teenage years growing up in 80s Cuba, Fidel Castro’s presence, and the overt influence of politics, was everywhere – on posters, on walls, in speeches that could last four hours at a stretch. The sense of being hemmed in, politically and personally, was hard to escape.

I had been raised to believe in communism, and for a long time I did. I even applied twice to join the Young Communist League, only to be rejected for not being “combative” enough: code for not informing on others. Friends were expelled from university or jailed for speaking too freely and my family included people in the military and police, so I had to be careful not to endanger them. But amid that stifling conformity, something else had begun to take hold.

This May, the singer will embark on a global tour in support of his forthcoming album, ‘Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally’

The acclaimed singer was set to perform with conductor James Gaffigan and the National Symphony Orchestra