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Bellamy's vocal style has been compared storm thorgerson wallpaper often to Radiohead singer Thom Yorke although, given the parallels that can be drawn between their first album and The Bends, the band have never cited Radiohead as a major influence. However, his operatic falsetto vocals, particularly on Muse's last two albums has drawn comparisons to Queen's Freddie Mercury's whose live theatricality he also shares.

Between May and August of 2008, the band matthew bellamy muse played an 8-date tour in Mexico and South America, as well as a performance at Marlay Park in Dublin with support from Kasabian and Glasvegas a few days before their headline slots at the English V Festival. Despite suggestions from the band themselves, no new material was debuted at these summer concerts.

Celine Dion was also threatened with eva green legal action in 2002 when she planned to name her Las Vegas show "Muse", despite the band owning the worldwide performing rights to the name. Celine Dion offered $50,000 for the rights but Muse rejected this with Bellamy stating that "We don't want to turn up there with people thinking we're Celine Dion's backing band". Eventually Dion was forced to back down.^[10]