Still, John doesn't seem to mind, after all he's fulfilling the same position that has been occupied by the likes of Bill Wyman, John Entwistle, John Paul Jones and literally countless others, and it doesn't seem to have done them any harm. The other 50 percent belongs to John and drummer Roger Taylor. I suspect that few people look beyond Freddie Mercury and Brian May when talking about Queen, but after all, they only make up half the band. It's almost as if some bands need one calm but solid member to offset the unpredictability of the rest - and this role invariably falls to the man with the four strings.

That mainly unsung army of musicians who usually stand in the shadows - stage left, and provide the anchor for the pyrotechnics of a lead guitarist or vocalist.Īlmost by tradition, bassists are quiet, deep-thinking men who rarely take the spotlight, are seldom interviewed, and yet without whom most of the bands they play for would grind to a halt. John Deacon typifies the role of the bass player in much of Sixties and Seventies rock music.

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