Quotes from John Deacon

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

We've always decided ourselves what we wanted to put out as our singles and that sort of things.

Ooh you're the best friend that I ever had I've been with you such a long time You're my sunshine and I want you to know That my feelings are true I really love you Oh you're my best friend

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.

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

Live Aid turned our world upside down.

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.

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.

When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.