45 Quotes by John Deacon

No, we have our ups and downs, but we're all very up at the moment.

I mean basically I was the newest member in a way, because the band was formed for 6 months with a few other bass players when I came along.

I must say American radio is good in a way because for new groups, especially like English groups that's how the interest picked up on us over here.

But we actually has bought a house in America as well, which is mainly at the moment a holiday home.

Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.

Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material.

There was always a lot of American music in England until, obviously when the Beatles came around, then there was a shift towards English music, but before then American music was the main thing.

But I've always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn't particularly changed my lifestyle.

I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.