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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I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album.
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Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.
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I have a few personal ambitions for the band.
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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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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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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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We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.
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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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No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.
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Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.
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When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
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I mean basically I was the newest member in a way, because the band was formed for 6 months with a few other bass players when I came along.
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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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But we actually has bought a house in America as well, which is mainly at the moment a holiday home.