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70s John Deacon
John Deacon was born in Leicester, England in 1951. He grew up in a working-class family and was always fascinated by music. As a teenager, he started playing guitar and bass and quickly became a skilled musician. In the early 1970s, he joined a band called Smile, which featured Brian May and Roger Taylor. The trio soon became friends and decided to form their own band, which they called Queen.