Poll: Favourite song written by John Deacon?

I went for If You Can't Beat Them

I would have said YOU AND I (didn't he write most of that? ) or Dont Try So Hard/My Baby Does Me... YOU AND I has so much vitality and punctuated by the middle ...do d o do doo doot do doo doot doooo

I thought people had come to the conclusion that there was no reason to believe Don't Try So Hard was John's?

You And I would be my pick as well, Spread Your Wings is my favourite included here. He doesn't have that many songs so I don't see why it'd be any trouble to include all of them in the poll..

<---- lousy ignoramus. STILL not aware of the initial conceptualization of ALL of the INNUENDO tracks.


BIJOU is suggestively mentioned as a FREDDIE song, but he was never able to play licks like that. ... unless some rare piano or vocal take survives. Anyways, Freddie was clearly a genius. ... why should I doubt

The rest are pretty clear by documentation. Maybe I haven't done my homework

[QUOTE] [b]matt z wrote:[/b]BIJOU is suggestively mentioned as a FREDDIE song, but he was never able to play licks like that. .[/QUOTE]

To compose a melody you don't need to be able to play it. Composing and playing are different disciplines. Most musicians who happen to be both composers and performers are usually able to compose things they wouldn't be able to play/sing, and play/sing things they wouldn't be able to compose.

Case in point: the thousands of pianists who learn Chopin's works... how many of them can actually compose something like that?

A lot of guitar music is written by non-guitarists, both in classical and popular circles.

Regarding DTSH, John name-dropped it in a 1990 letter to the Fan Club but not at any point did he ever say or imply he'd written it. Some idiot misread the quote and assumed it and then some gullible people believed him/her, and then some more people believed it because it was already 'fanon' (fan canon), and so on ... but it was never said or implied it was his - in fact, Brian said (Q Mag, early 2006) that DTSH and The Miracle were his favourite songs written by Freddie, and the recently released Illustrated Lyrics book includes the manuscript, with Freddie's handwriting - which by itself proves nothing (he used to make a copy of other people's lyrics as he understood his own handwriting better) but adds to it.

Not John, never was and there's never been any SERIOUS claim to the contrary. Just internet gossip.

You and I is probably my joint favourite along with Spread Your Wings; not a fan of I Want To Break Free mostly because of the production, but can stomach the live versions much more

Spread Your Wings is a gorgeous song, but I went for I Want To Break Free. Love the bit in the middle and the long intro, and the video (which I guess shouldn't count) probably seals it, because of its sense of humour and complete silliness.

Love Spread Your Wings but feel it could've been developed more - probably with more guitar. And I think this way because of the other versions - Beeb and Live Killers that seemed to develop.

But being of it's time - on the album that was the first stab at the sparseness Hot Space exemplified :-) - it was going to have an underdeveloped feel.

I voted Spread Your Wings. The Studio version isn't too great but it was great live and the BBC version is amazing. My second choice would be AOBTD.

If You and I was on there things might have been different. I really like that song...

^ agreed.

Spread Your Wings is my pick too. You're My Best Friend is a close second - it really is the perfect pop song.

Of the 10,000+ Queen and related tracks I've heard (studio and live), the BBC version of Spread Your Wings is in the top five.

Spread Your WIngs is great and the Livekillers version is one of my favourite live songs. However, if I had to pick one John song it would be If You Can't Beat Them. The live version of that track from Cologne 1979 is amazing and Brian does a fantastic job.

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I think 'In Only Seven Days' is a GREAT song as well.

" if I had to pick one John song it would be If You Can't Beat Them."

Really? The lack of 'You and I' in the poll screams 'QUEEN NEWBIE!!!'


The best Queen single never released.