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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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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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 recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.
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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 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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Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.
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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.
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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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Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.