Queen's John Deacon is 'fragile'
Queen's Roger Taylor says John Deacon is "quite fragile". The 70-year-old former bassist retired from the legendary rock band in 1997 - six years after his bandmate Freddie Mercury died from AIDS-related complications - and has tried to stay out of the limelight and away from people since then because he's not in a great place mentally. Taylor explained: "He’s [John] quite fragile. He took Freddie’s death so hard." The 72-year-old drummer thinks it took the band - comprised also of Brian May - at least "five years" to get over Freddie's passing. He told The Telegraph newspaper: “It was a dark ...