Brian May's Signed Nike Shoes

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Ended:December 14th 2021, 3:15pm EST

Winner: Saratogaspringer

£5,000($6,218 USD)

Charity percentage

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The Prize

It’s nearly half a century since Queen formed to become one of the greatest rock guitarists bands ever, packing stadiums across the globe and selling more than 300 million records. Their cannon of 72 singles includes We Will Rock You, Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, Don’t Stop Me Now and We Are the Champions. Former Queen member and one of rock’s greatest and most recognisable guitarists, Brian May’s solo projects include Back to the Light, which produced two Top 10 singles, Too Much Love Will Kill You and Driven by You. A second solo album, Another World, was released in 1998. In 2017 he collaborated with Kerry Ellis for the first time since their 2013 record Acoustic by Candlelight. Golden Days.

Beyond music, May earned a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London in 2006, worked as science team collaborator with NASA’s New Horizons Pluto mission and has even had an asteroid named after him. He’s also a committed animal rights activist, campaigning against the hunting of foxes and the culling of badgers in the UK.In 2018 as a member of Queen, he received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award which recognises “the most distinctive recordings in music history."

Details:

White Nike Air Windrunners with Brians orthoheel inner soles still inside.
Condition: Well worn with signs of usage on sole and with markings on leather and laces.
Brand: Nike Air Windrunners
Size: EU 44.5
Signature on the heels.

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The Cause

Small Steps Project is a children’s charity dealing with the most devastating humanitarian consequence of the global waste problem: child waste pickers.

All over the world thousands of children survive by collecting and recycling rubbish on landfill sites. Deprived of an education, they work when they should be at school and put their lives at risk on a daily basis. Work on the dumps is dirty and dangerous. As well as respiratory and skin diseases, cuts and lacerations to their hands and feet are commonplace and risk of infection is extremely high in the toxic environment.

Small Steps Project provides shoes to protect their feet and support to enable them to take small steps off the dump sites, out of poverty and into education.

To date, Small Steps Project has provided shoes and aid to over 20,000 children thanks to the money raised from shoes, all donated and signed by some of the most famous celebrities in the world.

Website

smallstepsproject.org

Item #P66492

In condition as donated.
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