QUEEN: Whatever Happened to Bassist JOHN DEACON?

QUEEN has seen a huge resurgence in their popularity thanks to the hollywood biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, but one person who hasn't been seen in a long time is original bassist John Deacon. Whatever happened to him? Well, we take a look at that in today's video below
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if you've been following Queen since the death of Freddie Mercury especially more recently then you know that original bassist John Deacon is nowhere to be seen
I mean where did this guy go
even during the promotion for the band's biopic Bohemian Rhapsody all we saw was guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor promoting the film alongside the actors
and with Queen touring with Adam Lambert I don't think anybody even knows who the new bassist is for the band
I certainly don't
so today let's take a look at what happened to Queen's original bassist John Deacon
so following Queen frontman Freddie Mercury's death in 1991 John Deacon essentially retired and stepped out of the spotlight
Queens publicist Phil Symes would tell the Daily Mail he's just living a private life and the Daily Mail would report that his net worth was an estimated 135 million pounds
now Brian May would reflect on Deacon's decision saying it's his choice
he doesn't contact us
John was quite delicate all along
not a single guttural grunt
now to those close to Deacon some believe that his plan from the beginning was to fade away and when Deacon auditioned for Queen he was chosen because of his calm behavior with drummer Roger Taylor recalling we were so over the top
we thought that because he was quiet he would fit in with us without too much upheaval with Brian May saying he's very solid no-nonsense
he's always got his feet firmly on the ground
and Deacon would be credited with writing some of Queen's biggest hit songs including Another One Bites the Dust Under Pressure and You're My Best Friend
And not only was he considered reclusive to his bandmates in management but to his own neighbors
Deacon would purchase a pretty modest house with his first royalty check and raised six children with his wife in that property
and some people who know Deacon have claimed that he has dealt with depression which only worsened following Freddie Mercury's death
now Deacon would marry Veronica Tetzlaff who was a Polish Catholic teacher in January of 1975 when she was pregnant with their first child
this happened just as the band's fortune seemed to spiral out of control five years later in the 1980s and guitarist Brian May revealed in an interview that the band lost control during their time recording in Munich Germany in the early 80s saying the band was as he put it living in a fantasy world of vodka and barmaids
he'd go on to say we all lost our minds
we're all in the perilous place where our emotions were out of control
it manifested itself into too much drinking a certain amount of drugs which I didn't share but certainly an awful lot of vodka went through my body
we all fell to bits and we overreacted with each other at times we all left the band at some point and the studio is a hard place for a band anyways but in our case all four of us were writers who had worldwide hits
the lifestyle we led magnified that conflict
guitarist Brian May would say that it was during this time that John Deacon disappeared going to Bali Indonesia and seeing God or whatever
he would also add he could be very outgoing and very funny but I think some of the stuff that happened in Munich gave him a lot of damage and I think losing Freddy was very hard to him as well and he found that incredibly hard to process to the point where actually playing with us made it more difficult
and Freddy's death only made things worse and some would credit Freddy's death with pushing Deacon into a deep depression
since Mercury's death in 1992 Deacon has only performed three times live
once at the 1992 Freddie Mercury tribute show and 1993 he played a benefit show with Roger Taylor and his final appearance came in 1997 when the three surviving members of Queen performed the show must go on with Elton John in Paris
Deacon would also contribute to the Queen songs No One But You Only the Good Die Young a new song for Queen rocks compilation but that was basically it
he never showed up to the band's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001
and in 2002 there was a short scandal when Deacon was visiting a club and formed a friendship with an exotic dancer with whom he was photographed with
Roger Taylor would say at the time we're not in touch but John's a sociopath really
he's given his blessing to whatever Brian and I might do with the band and we've done rather a lot.

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