John Deacon | Transformation From 1 To 67 Years Old

John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is an English retired musician, best known for being the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He composed several songs for the group—including Top 10 hits "You're My Best Friend", "Another One Bites the Dust", "Back Chat", and "I Want to Break Free"—and was involved in the band's financial management.

Deacon grew up in Oadby, Leicestershire, playing bass in a local band, The Opposition, before moving to study electronics at Chelsea College, London. He joined Queen in 1971 on the strength of his musical and electronic skills, particularly the home-made Deacy Amp which guitarist Brian May used to create guitar orchestras throughout Queen's career. From the third album, Sheer Heart Attack, onwards, he wrote at least one song per album, several of which became hits. As well as bass, Deacon played some guitar and keyboards on Queen's studio work.

After the death of lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1991 and the following year's Tribute Concert, Deacon performed only sporadically with the remaining members of Queen before retiring from the music industry in 1997 after recording "No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)". He has not performed on any of the other projects that the other two surviving members, Brian May and Roger Taylor, have put together.
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Early life
John Richard Deacon was born on 19 August 1951 in Leicester[1] to Arthur Henry and Lilian Molly Deacon (née Perkins).[2] His father worked at the Norwich Union insurance company and in 1960 the family moved to the dormitory town of Oadby.[3] Deacon was known to friends and his bandmates as 'Deaks' or 'Deaky' and attended Linden Junior School in Leicester, Gartree High School and Beauchamp Grammar School in Oadby. He became interested in electronics, reading magazines on the subject and building small devices, including the modification of a reel-to-reel tape deck to record music directly from the radio.[4][5] He studied well and achieved 8 GCE O level and 3 A level passes, all at grade A.[6] He particularly enjoyed soul music.[7]

Career
Deacon joined his first band, The Opposition, in 1965 at the age of 14. The band played covers of chart hits; Deacon played rhythm guitar using an instrument he had bought with money borrowed from the group's founder, Richard Young.[8] He switched to bass the following year after the original bassist was fired for not improving his playing as much as the other members.[9] As well as a dedicated musician, Deacon also was the band's archivist, taking clippings from newspapers of even the advertisements featuring The Opposition. After being in the band for four years, not long after the group cut an acetate of three songs, Deacon played his final concert with the band (then called The Art) in August 1969.[10][11] He left as he had been accepted to study at Chelsea College in London (now part of King's College London), where he obtained a First Class Honours degree in Electronics in 1971.[1] Having become a fan of Deep Purple, he saw the group perform the Concerto for Group and Orchestra with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall that September.[12]

Although he left his bass and amplifier at home in Oadby, after less than a year of studying in London, he decided he wanted to join a band.[13] In 1970, Freddie Mercury, Brian May, and Roger Taylor had formed Queen; Deacon saw them in October that year but was not immediately impressed.[11] Later in the year, he briefly formed a band called Deacon that made one live appearance at Chelsea College.[14]

In early 1971, Deacon was introduced to Taylor and May by a friend at a disco who told him that they were in a band that had just lost its bassist. A couple of days later he auditioned in a lecture room at Imperial College London and became the last member of Queen to join.[11] Deacon was selected for his musical talent, his quiet demeanour and his electrical skills.[15] A persistent legend claims Deacon was the seventh bassist auditioned,[16] but more recent sources show Queen's bassists were, in order: Mike Grose, Barry Mitchell, Doug Bogie and Deacon.[17][18] Deacon played his first show with Queen at the College of Estate Management in Kensington in June.[1]

On Queen's first album (1973) he was credited as "Deacon John",[19] in order to make him "sound more interesting". He asked to be credited under his real name, which was done on all albums from Queen II (1974) onwards.
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