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John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is an English retired musician who was the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He wrote several songs for the group, including Top 10 hits "You're My Best Friend", "Another One Bites the Dust" and "I Want to Break Free"; co-wrote "Under Pressure", "Friends Will Be Friends" and "One Vision"; and he was involved in the band's financial management.
Jul 18, 2022 · Freddie Mercury helped John Deacon deal with the pressures of being in Queen. Picture: Getty "John freaked out and decided he really couldn’t deal with being in the music business anymore, it was an odd period," Roger Taylor said, adding: "Really the band was over." John Deacon himself made a rare public statement in the aftermath of Freddie Mercury's passing, saying: "As far as we are concerned, this is it. There is no point carrying on.
Jul 19, 2023 · As a bass player, John Deacon has been vastly underrated and this is probably due to him being the shy part of a quartet that featured three outstanding personalities, but without doubt it was John's solid and sometimes inspirational playing that helped them all to shine. Looking back on his time with Queen, Deacon always felt that the writing side was important part. "If I'd just been a bass player all my life with the band, I wouldn't be as satisfied as I am because I only consider that as ...
Jun 6, 2024 · John Deacon got his start in music during his teenage years. He was born in Leicester, and started playing the guitar at a young age. Queen: John Deacon's lookalike son sings and plays guitar just like his famous dad in stunning video. In 1965, Deacon joined his first band, The Opposition, as a rhythm guitarist, but soon switched to bass guitar ...
Continuing the journey through some of Queen's outstanding moments from the last 50 years, we celebrate the extraordinary achievement that has seen all four ...
Nov 23, 2022 · John Deacon was especially close to Freddie Mercury who was a stabilising force for John, helping the quiet bass guitarist cope with the pressure of being in Queen. The lead singer's passing changed everything for him and it was at The Freddie Mercury Tribute concert , just five months after Freddie's death, that Deacon would speak in public as a member of Queen for the very last time.
John Deacon’s first guitar was a red plastic Tommy Steele special, which his parents bought for him when he was seven. John’s father, Arthur, however, led him in a different direction, encouraging John to tinker with electronics, a hobby that Arthur himself loved. One of John's early projects included adapting an old reel-to-reel tape deck to record music from the radio - usually The Beatles and Alan Freeman's Hit Parade. John’s interest in electronics developed into a passion, and in ...
Apr 13, 2024 · Queen formed in 1970 and, once joined by John Deacon in February 1971, they began to progress into the juggernaut we know today. Two of Mr Deacon’s best known basslines, Under Pressure and Another One Bites The Dust, can be found in our 40 best basslines of all time poll, at numbers 30 and 7 respectively. With a powerful blend of pop, prog, and pomp, Queen are renowned for a metal-meets-vaudeville songwriting and performance style.
Oct 29, 2018 · John was quite delicate all along," said May. "I haven't heard a squeak from John," Taylor added. "Not a single guttural grunt." But to some extent that was the plan all along. After auditioning a ...
Aug 19, 2022 · John Deacon, then, is not a man to shy away from controversy, although one would be forgiven for thinking he was a pussycat. Deacon was the last member to join Queen. He was a science student at Chelsea College when he heard of a three-piece seeking a bass-player. He got the job, but insisted on seeing out the final six months of his degree course to earn a First Class Honours BSc in Electronics.
Aug 19, 2022 · What happened to John Deacon of Queen? Arun Starkey. Fri 19 August 2022 11:00, UK. Whilst George Harrison of The Beatles is hailed as the definitive ‘Quite One’, people always forget that there was a quieter one: John Deacon of Queen. Deacon was the band’s secret weapon, making their dynamic songs truly pop with his trademark runs down ...
Aug 19, 2019 · 10 bass greats pay tribute to the genius of Queen’s John Deacon. When recording, he would usually DI the bass but also mic up an Acoustic 301 cabinet and a 4x12 cabinet, the final signal being a combination of all three - making for a rich, thick tone. Deacon’s background in electronics led to him providing May with the ‘Deacy Amp’, a ...
Jul 13, 2023 · "John is still very much part of Queen": Brian May on John Deacon's decision to put down his bass following Freddie Mercury's death. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Queen guitarist Brian May has spoken about bassist John Deacon's decision to step away from the band following the death of frontman Freddie Mercury.
Nov 11, 2018 · John Deacon (Leicester, England, 1951) was the last to arrive to the group in 1971 while taking the electronics course at Chelsea College London. Ordinary friends introduced the three young men, former members of the Smile group, who had just formed Queen and were looking for a bass player. They gave him a test, and that day changed his life. Taciturn, quiet and introverted, the clichés that are usually associated with the bass players come true.
Jun 30, 2020 · These days Deacon still lives in Putney with his wife of forty-five years with whom he's raised six children. Even in retirement though, Deacon's time with Queen continues to pay off. As the BBC noted, his net worth rose by £25m last year to £130m. Nothing has happened to John Deacon. After Queen, he simply moved on with his life into retirement.
Jan 17, 2022 · John Deacon told Queen bandmates Brian May and Roger Taylor he could “never do this again” after a single-song show with Elton John in the Ballet for Life on Jan. 17, 1997, at the Paris ...
Mar 1, 2016 · That all changed on March 1, 1971, when 19-year old John Deacon joined. Queen finally had the fourth and final piece in the puzzle. As a child, Deacon had a keen interest in electronics, and spent ...
John Deacon is an English bassist and songwriter, best known for his compositions ‘You're My Best Friend’, ‘Another One Bites the Dust’, ‘Back Chat’, and ‘I Want to Break Free’. Developing an early interest in music, he joined his first band, ‘The Opposition’ at the age of fourteen. At eighteen, he moved to London to study electronics, another of his passions, graduating at the age of twenty with a first-class degree.
Oct 30, 2018 · October 30, 2018. Queen bassist John Deacon is at once one of the most successful songwriters of the 20th century and a mystery to everyone from his fans to his former band mates. While Deacon had the least interest in the spotlight of any member of Queen, his contributions to the iconic band's catalog — writing or co-writing songs like ...
Jul 3, 2022 · Bass player for Queen, John Deacon (pictured in 1992),famously quit the band not long after Freddie Mercury's untimely death 1991. Picture: Getty. Speaking to RockFM in Spain, Brian May opened up about the likelihood of John Deacon returning to Queen and his and Roger Taylor's efforts to lure him back. (Pictured in 1985, L to R: John Deacon ...
Jul 14, 2023 · John Deacon and Freddie Mercury with Queen. Picture: Alamy But while the band continued, Deacon played live with Queen only three times after Mercury's passing. He performed at The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness on April 20, 1992, and at a charity concert with Roger Taylor at Cowdray House in Midhurst on 18 September 18, 1993.
Sep 15, 2020 · John Deacon and Freddie Mercury were very close during their years in the band and John was devastated when he died in 1991. Pictured John and Freddie on stage in 1977. Picture: Getty "John freaked out and decided he really couldn’t deal with being in the music business anymore, it was an odd period," Roger Taylor said, adding: "Really the band was over."
