File:Queen_News_Of_The_World_(1977_Press_Kit_Photo_07)_John_Deacon.jpg · Wikimedia Commons · See Wikimedia Commons
John Deacon
Sign in to saveAlso known as John Richard Deacon
British musician, bassist and songwriter (born 1951)
OverviewAI-generated
John Deacon was a British musician whose professional career spanned from 1965 to 1997. Associated with the group Queen, his musical output has been categorized under genres including 80s, 90s, alternative rock, classic pop and rock, and dream pop. He is the father of six children.
Open Library records indicate an author named John Deacon who was active in 1682 and died in 1701. This individual is credited with twelve works, including *The west=country lawyer*, *The maidens tragedy*, and *Barbara Allen's cruelty: or, The young-man's tragedy*. Crossref data lists five works for an author of this name.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Leicester
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Religion
- Christian
- Notable work
- I Want to Break Free
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- piano
- Image
- Bass player queen.jpg
- Number of children
- 6
Show 7 more facts
- Commons category
- John Deacon
- date of birth
- 1951-08-19
- start of work period
- 1965-00-00
- birth name
- John Richard Deacon
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
- end of work period
- 1997-00-00
- member of
- Queen
Sources (6)
via Wikidata · CC0
~16 min read
Encyclopedic overview
John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is an English retired musician who was the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He wrote several songs for the group, including Top 10 hits "You're My Best Friend", "Another One Bites the Dust" and "I Want to Break Free"; and co-wrote "Under Pressure", "Friends Will Be Friends" and "One Vision".
Deacon grew up in Oadby, Leicestershire, playing bass guitar 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 homemade 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 guitar, Deacon played some guitar, keyboards and piano on Queen's studio work.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John Deacon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.