{"id":30694,"date":"2024-10-24T18:02:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-24T18:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/brian-may-reveals-john-deacons-involvement-in-queens-legacy\/"},"modified":"2024-10-24T18:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-24T18:02:48","slug":"brian-may-reveals-john-deacons-involvement-in-queens-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/brian-may-reveals-john-deacons-involvement-in-queens-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May reveals John Deacon\u2019s involvement in Queen\u2019s legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-24\/Getty_Queen_102424.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Richard Creamer\/Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Queen<\/strong>\u00a0will release <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Queen I<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, a six-CD + one-LP collector&#8217;s edition box set devoted to their self-titled debut album, on Friday, and it\u2019s just another way the band is celebrating their legacy.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In an interview with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mojo4music.com\/articles\/stories\/brian-may-interviewed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>MOJO<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">, guitarist <strong>Brian May<\/strong> says their legacy is \u201cabsolutely\u201d important to them, noting,\u00a0\u201cThe passion is still there. We still get angry if things aren\u2019t right, and it\u2019s still fun.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He adds, \u201cWhen I pop off from this planet, I would like to know that I\u2019ve done my best on anything that I ever touched.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He also shares that while bassist <strong>John Deacon<\/strong> hasn&#8217;t played with the band since 1997, he is still very much a part of decisions that are made with regard to Queen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cJohn still has a \u2018yes\u2019 or \u2018no\u2019 say. We get messages that he\u2019s happy with what we\u2019re doing, but he doesn\u2019t want the stress of being involved creatively, and we respect that,\u201d May says. \u201c<strong>Freddie <\/strong>(<strong>Mercury<\/strong>) we can\u2019t talk to, sadly. But the four of us worked as a team for so long that <strong>Roger <\/strong>(<strong>Taylor<\/strong>) and I have a pretty good idea what our fellow Queen members would be saying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He adds, \u201cThis thing is longer that anybody\u2019s marriage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">And it sounds like fans can expect Queen to revisit\u00a0at least one more album in their catalog.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI certainly think <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Queen II<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> deserves that treatment,\u201d May says. \u201cThere are many layers on that record and there wasn\u2019t really the technology to make that heard.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">He adds, \u201cI think we\u2019ll stop there, though. By <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Sheer Heart Attack<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> we had everything under our fingers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Creamer\/Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images Queen\u00a0will release Queen I, a six-CD + one-LP collector&#8217;s edition box set devoted to their self-titled debut album, on Friday, and it\u2019s just another way the band is celebrating their legacy.\u00a0 In an interview with MOJO, guitarist Brian May says their legacy is \u201cabsolutely\u201d important<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/brian-may-reveals-john-deacons-involvement-in-queens-legacy\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30694"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}