Deacon Article

Mr Right wrote:

Brian & Roger are hard faced and make shrewd business men but john was too nice for that.

Once again, your ignorance abounds.

In their day, John was arguably the most shrewd businessman of the bunch. There are plenty of stories of John being the one to make the loudest and most prudent points at business meetings.

Literally every rock star needs to be good at business, even if that side of things isn't immediately visible to you and your preconceived notions. You continue to prove how you know nothing about how the music business works.

Dunning Kruger effect, again and again. Such low hanging fruit. You make it too easy. Do you actually enjoy having people hand your ass to you every day of your life?

Real Wizard: If John was such a nasty pasty then how come he appears to be so fragile and hiding himself away then?
Even Jacky Gunn from the Queen fan club said John was painfully shy so he is hardly going to be nasty is he?
May & Taylor are the hard nosed men in Queen not John.
Brian said John was too delicate for the band as well.

Mr Right wrote:

Real Wizard: If John was such a nasty pasty then how come he appears to be so fragile and hiding himself away then?
Even Jacky Gunn from the Queen fan club said John was painfully shy so he is hardly going to be nasty is he?
May & Taylor are the hard nosed men in Queen not John.
Brian said John was too delicate for the band as well.

So you're mistaking being a shrewd business man and making your point emphatically when it's something you know a lot about for being nasty? Also just because someone is shy in a social setting or when being interviewed, accosted by fans wanting autographs etc doesn't mean they're shy in a business setting, they're completely different things, people aren't one dimensional. Also circumstances change, if he's fragile and reclusive now maybe it was triggered or at least made worse by Freddie's death and he's never fully recovered from it. People aren't static and life circumstances have an impact in all sorts of ways.

"So how does that fuel the no Queen without Freddie crowd's "respect"?"

Well, he dabbled and decided it wasn't for him. Perhaps he should've waited a while like BM did.

Probably because that was his life for 20 years and basically didn't know what else to do.

If that iteration had continued I wonder where we'd be now.

Btw. the sociopath comment is a few years old.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/he-will-rock-you-roger-taylor-on-solo-recordings-freddie-mercurys-biopic-and-assembling-the-ultimate-8899899.html

I could make it a link but I prefer to make Mooghead angry.

I've seen photos with him and his family from recent years and he looks just fine! It must be so frustrating for him as he clearly has left his old rock star life behind. If maylor had simply formed a new band with a new name and material I'm sure he would feel better ...but they keep flogging Queen and it's making it impossible for him to escape it all...this article would make anyone depressed... It's all 30 years ago for heaven's sake and still fans are banging on his door .it must seem like a life sentence.leave the guy in peace.

MisterCosmicc wrote:

Always shocked me how he aged so much despite being the youngest member of the band.

Same thing with George Harrison. Also Mick Jones of The Clash has looked elderly for the last twenty years. Funny how some age more than others, not just to do with lifestyles either.

Agreed. It's not exactly like BM and RT have aged better. They're all just humans. With a man's courage.

No one but the pure in heart
May find the golden grail

John Williams (the guitarist) is nearly 80 and bald but could pass for half his age. True dat.

Mr. Deacon was not a docker to be paid by the hour. The 100+ millions he contractually earned represent more than payment for a job done, as he seems to think in his self-sufficiency.
A man of character should have understand that and supported his band mates, especially in hard times after losing the key member.
So his problem is not the personality type or even a neurological one, as some dumb comments suggest. It's entirely about character.

John Deacon is a lot like Archie Bunker these days.

A man of character should have understand that and supported his band mates, especially in hard times after losing the key member.

ummm he did?

Dr Magus wrote:

MisterCosmicc wrote:

Always shocked me how he aged so much despite being the youngest member of the band.

Same thing with George Harrison. Also Mick Jones of The Clash has looked elderly for the last twenty years. Funny how some age more than others, not just to do with lifestyles either.

Mick Jones is a VERY BAD example. He was very ill, he almost died.

In September 1988, Jones’s then 4-year-old daughter, Lauren, contracted chicken pox. She recovered quickly, but Jones, who had never had the disease as a child, was unconscious for two weeks, suffered severe infections in his mouth, throat and lungs, developed acute pneumonia and sustained nerve damage. Hooked to respirators and partially paralyzed, it was touch and go for eight hours. Recovery took nine months, and Jones required extensive therapy to repair his damaged throat and vocal chords.

He's also a massive wreck head, a black mailer and a sexual pervert.