John Deacon leaves Queen after final onstage show. That song with Elton was part of a Ballet For Life show to raise AIDS awareness, a very appropriate cause.

(from left) John Deacon, Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury and Brian May of Queen in 1985. Dave Hogan/Getty Deacon joined Queen in 1971 as the group's fourth member.

With a powerful blend of pop, prog, and pomp, Queen are renowned for a metal-meets-vaudeville songwriting and performance style. But that wasn't the case prior to 1974, when the group's third ...

JOHN DEACON's birthday has been marked by Brian May and Roger Taylor 25 years after the Queen bassist left the band following Freddie Mercury's death. Having retired from the music industry he now ...

Why Did John Deacon Quit Queen? Deacon's final song, ironically, was "The Show Must Go On." But he quit abruptly after the Paris show, telling May and Taylor that he could "never do this again." ...

Last week, Brian May went on record discussing Queen's elusive bass player, John Deacon, and the moment he finally left the band in the wake of Freddie Mercury's death. In an interview with The ...

John Deacon was left feeling 'so desperately uncomfortable' performing as Queen without Freddie Mercury. The bassist was unhappy, chain-smoking and extremely nervous during his last performance ...

John Deacon was always the quiet man of Queen, not just during the band's (original line-up) heyday, but even more so after the world lost Freddie Mercury in November 1991.

Former Queen bassist John Deacon, who wrote some of the band’s biggest hits including “Another One Bites the Dust” and “You’re My Best Friend,” axed his relationship with the group ...

Deacon joined Queen in 1971 as the group's fourth member. He is renowned for his electronic skills, as he created the Deacy Amp, which May used to play guitar orchestras on many of Queen's hit tracks.