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John Deacon (30)

Birth:	19th August, 1951
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Musician, Lyricist

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• Arguments are healthy. They clear the air

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• You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

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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 you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it’s a lot easier.

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• When we recorded our first album sixteen track machines were the thing.

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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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• 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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• 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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• The band was rejuvenated by that wonderful day. It breathed new life into us.

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• That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

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• Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

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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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• No, we have our ups and downs, but we’re all very up at the moment.

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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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• Lot’s of marriages don’t last as long as Queen have been together.

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• Live Aid turned our world upside down.

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• In a way it costs thousands dollars before you could actually go out to put the show on because you’ll need equipments, all the lights you know, and that’s more just going out and playing you know.

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• I’ll probably make loads of plans, and then just sit around on my bottom all day long and do nothing.

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• I wouldn’t do go to another band.

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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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