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[edit] Songs by Deacon

Is there a point in having a "Other songs by Deacon" section? It's incomplete and ultimately pointless. I recommend deleting it.

[edit] Quote on Pepsi's "We Will Rock You" attributed to Brian May

In an interview with Roger Taylor on the Pepsi rendition of "We Will Rock You", he said that "All of us can make mistakes. By the way, all those things were Brian's ideas..." See http://www.brianmay.com/queen/wwry/moscow/launch.html

[edit] Jimmy Sargison

"As a trained electrical engineer, he often used to Jimmy Sargison up equipment for the band."

What does "Jimmy Sargison" mean?? I suggest replacing this expression with something that is more commonly understood or explain this in a footnote.

[edit] Homosexuality

In case anyone was wondering, the thing about rumours of his homosexuality IS true; check out the last link in the article, if anyone can read Russian. These are only rumours, though; so far unconfirmed. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Swanceva (talk • contribs) 14:23, 28 April 2007 (UTC).

Swanceva 14:24, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] The article Homosexuality of John Deacon

I merged the new article Homosexuality of John Deacon into this article, because I didn't feel that the subject was notable enough to warrant a separate article. I saved the contents of that page into this one and then deleted them, so that the editors of this page would have them at their disposal. I hope this helps. Darkspots 17:13, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Homosexuality

Whywas the article deleted? Even if it was not, perhaps, THE topic of modern queenomania, whay was it deleted? There was no false information in it. Swanceva 17:18, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

He is not gay. There is no proof that he is gay. Just because Mercury was bisexual does not mean that all the members of Queen where gay. 72.9.18.123 (talk) 02:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Where is it?

What happened to the article? Where did it go???

[edit] Read Wikipedia's policy on biographies of living people before editing further

Please kindly familiarise yourself with our policy on biographies of living persons before making any further edits to Wikipedia. I have removed all the edits made to John Deacon containing totally unsourced speculation. Please ensure that you do not add such material into any article in the future, or you will be blocked from editing. Such unsourced speculation can cause exceptionally serious legal problems for Wikimedia and those who contributed it. -- Nick ^t 17:30, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Another collaboration of John Deacon

in 1988, he collaborated in the video "Stutter Rap" from Morris Minor and the Majors

can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAIOzM7SsMo

Andyteleco 19:48, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Singer

Is it just me, or is that paragraph really bad? I mean, they wouldn't "play a trick on him" and turn his mic up. That's just stupid. GiantSpider (talk) 16:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Retirement From Queen

The suggestion that John retired after the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert in April 1992 is just plain wrong... He continued - to record Made In Heaven and No One But You. And I think he played in the Bejart Ballet concert. What would be a more appropriate wording? Martin Packer (talk) 09:31, 3 March 2008 (UTC)