John Deacon
John Deacon
John Richard Deaconis a retired English musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He composed several hit singles, including "You're My Best Friend", "Another One Bites the Dust" and "I Want to Break Free", and was involved in the band's financial management...
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Yes, it is a rehearsed show, yes, it was analogy of going to see a play at the theatre, where everything has to be in place and whole things, everything being works, all works together to get the best effect you know it's more like an actor learning a part.
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When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
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We didn't have a lot of success with that first album but we sold a few thousand and we'd done a John Peel session which got some plays.
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We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.
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When we finished the album, the Night at the Opera album, that was the track on it that we thought we were gonna release as a single in England first.
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I have a few personal ambitions for the band.
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No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.
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Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.
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No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.
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I must say American radio is good in a way because for new groups, especially like English groups that's how the interest picked up on us over here.
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Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.
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There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.
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But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.
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I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.