Biography
The Kueen Rock Group bassist John Deacon played a team from the ground to the tragic death of her vocalist Freddie Mercury. He combined the talent of the musician with technical abilities and financial literacy, becoming an integral and respected member of the team.Childhood and youth
A musician was born on August 19, 1951 in the English city of Leicester. 5 years later, John was born sister Julia. The head of the family of the Dismica worked in the insurance company.
At 7 years, parents presented the boy with a red plastic guitar "Tommy Steele". But at that time it was more interested in not music, but electronics. The young inventor read the magazines, and then designed its own devices. He managed to improve the old coil tape recorder, turning it into the recorder. John listened to the radio and recorded everything.
When the son turned 9 years old, his father transported the family in Odbi town. Here they settled in the hostel, and the boy began to go to Gymnasium Great, then - to College Bitchem with a humanitarian bias. Studying was easy, and the schoolboy reached high results.
The first musical idols for the future guitarist became the group "The Beatles". Thanks to the Liverpool Four, the Watch felt interest in music. He listened to "Love Me Do", "Please Please Me", "Ask Me Why" and other songs and dreamed of playing the same way.
Began a long way to a dream. To begin with a professional instrument, and between John and the guitar got the weeks with morning newspapers in their hands. Having earned the right amount, the young man began to master musical science.
In 1965, a high school student organized a group with an expected for a teenager name "The Opposition", which was renamed in the "The New Opposition" after a year. In the team first played on the rhythm guitar, and then, after the care of the bass guitarist, retrained and had already been faithful to the tool. The first bass guitar "EKO" Dikon bought for £ 22. After 4 years, August 29, 1969, "The New Opposition" played the last concert, after which the wilder went his way, and the group, changing the name on "The Art", - his.
Frontman's care is associated with the invitation to London for study in Chelsea Technical College, which is part of the "London Imperial College" component. The young man left, leaving the bass guitar, an amplifier and an old life in his native town. However, six months later, I realized that I could not without music, and asked my mother to send equipment.
Back in the student years, the Dismica heard the speech of the beginning of the group "Queen", which did not impress him. At that time he lived with a new desire - to create my team and play. I carried out his young man fast enough. The new brainchild of the musician is the group "Deacon", played the first concert and stopped exist. All because the guitarist was taken to Queen, and in his biography began a new stage.
Music
There are two versions of how John Deacon got into Queen. On the first one, the young man regularly looked through the ads of the set of musicians in the local newspaper and thus once came to audition in the team. By the second - the musicians met a disco in college. The team was just looking for a bass guitarist, and the puzzle was formed. Roger Taylor, Brian Mei and Freddie Mercury immediately appreciated the talent of the future colleague and his knowledge in electronics, as well as emotional equilibrium.
At that time, the dishona was 19 years old, and he turned out to be the younger of the participants in Queen. Despite the age, the young man easily bypassed 7 applicants for the place of the bass guitarist and entrenched in the group. The first concert with the participation of a new team member took place on July 2, 1971 in the College of Property Management in Kensington.
In 1973, the group released a debut studio album with the same name "Queen". The influence on the musicians of the time of Hard-rock and Hevi-Metal is clearly seen. Song texts are written by everyone, excluding John, team members and were based on various topics, including folklore and religion.
In fact, the material for the record was ready already in 1972, and a whole year of record companies did not want to take for him. In the meantime, the musicians have already begun to prepare a new collection, which came out a year later. Over time, the wilderness, like the rest of the group, began writing songs. The first his work found a place in the 3rd album "Sheer Heart Attack". But the track called "Misfire" was not particularly loved by the public.
The first hit of the authorship of John Dicon entered the 4th album "A Night At the Opera" and was called "You're My Best Friend". The musician song dedicated to Veronica's wife and wrote their wedding in the year. An interesting fact is that the composition sounds the electropiano, at which initially the bassist suggested to play Freddie, but that flatly refused, calling it "tiny and terrible."
After that, John had to take the tool home and learn to play it. A simple, uncomplicated video was removed on the song, which did not prevent him from becoming one of the best video "Queen" of the Glam-fatal period.
The album "A Night At The Opera" was four times platinum and entered the "500 greatest albums of all time according to the magazine" ROLLING STONE ". The cult composition has become a 6-minute (among standard 3-minute) "Bohemian Rhapsody". It mixed up several genres: rock, pop music and opera. After the success of the photo of musicians and articles about them began to appear in magazines.
Unlike other members of the team, Dicon wrote a little, but many of his creations became famous and loved by Melomanians around the world. This includes "Spread Your Wings", "Another One Bites The Dust", "I Want To Break Free" and others.
"Another One Bites The Dust" translated - "Another one is defeated in the dust." The song after the release was led by 3 American Chart at once, and the single became the best selling both in the USA and in the world. It is noteworthy that John played almost all tools that sound in the composition.
The skill of the bass guitarist Dicon grew rapidly. It was highly appreciated not only by listeners, but also colleagues on the workshop. In addition to the professional playing guitar, he was responsible for the equipment "Queen". As a talented technician, made an amplifier "Deacy Amp", which he himself used, and subsequently - Brian Mei.
The most balanced team of the team combined another talent - the ability to handle finance. The musician almost from the very beginning headed the financial affairs of the team, performing the functions of the internal controller, administrator, and even an accountant.
In the 80s, at various interviews, Deekon said that he wanted to play in other projects, in addition to Queen. As a result, he took part in the record of the single MAN Friday & Jive Junior "Picking Up Sound", and also played with "The Immortals". In addition, he worked with Elton John, took part in the recording of the soundtrack for the film "Bigglz: Adventure in time."
After the death of Freddie Mercury in 1991, the musician firmly declared his caring from the group. The latter as part of Queen has become a performance in the framework of the London charitable concert of the memory of vocalist. One more time he went on stage with a team in 1997. Then a memorial concert took place, following which they recorded a single song without the participation of Mercury - "No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young)."
After 4 years, Brian May and Rogerre Taylor recorded a remake on WE ARE CHAMPONS, which was performed by Robbie Williams. After that, the newspaper "The Sun" published an interview where a former bassist said:
"This is one of the greatest songs ever written by mankind, and I think they wanted her. I would not like to ulce, but let's just recognize that Robbie Williams is not Freddie Mercury. Freddie is impossible to replace, and even more so Williams. "In October 2018, Brian Singer "Bohemian Rhapsody" film was released. This is a biographical picture of the Queen soloist. The main roles are performed by Ramie Malek (Freddie Mercury), Gvilim Lee (Brian Mei), Ben Hardy (Roger Taylor), John Dicon played Joseph Martzzello.
Personal life
The personal life of the rocker is distinguished by enviable constancy. John married John in his youth (in 1975) on Polka Veronica Tetzluff. The girl worked as a teacher and grew in a strict Catholic family. Her parents were very surprised when the daughter said that she was pregnant and not married.
Young people quickly issued relations, and after some time their firstborn appeared. In total, 6 children were born in marriage: 5 sons (Robert, Michael, Joshua, Luke, Cameron) and daughter Laura.
John Dicon now
In 2018, John Dicona turned 67 years old. Once deciding to leave the group, he remains faithful to his word.
About what is happening in the life of the ex-bassist group "Queen", a little is known. According to the latest data, he lives in the Patney area in the south-west of London, completely immersed in a family with children and grandchildren.
Discography
- 1973 - "Queen"
- 1974 - Queen II
- 1975 - "A Night At The Opera"
- 1976 - "A Day at the Races"
- 1977 - "NEWS OF THE WORLD"
- 1978 - "Jazz"
- 1980 - "The Game"
- 1980 - "Flash Gordon"
- 1982 - "HOT SPACE"
- 1984 - "The Works"
- 1986 - "A Kind of Magic"
- 1989 - "The Miracle"
- 1991 - "Innuendo"
- 1995 - "Made in Heaven"