Brian May Reveals Queen Have Asked John Deacon To Rejoin Them

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John Deacon officially left Queen in 1997 and has lived a quiet life away from the spotlight, but in a new interview, Brian May has revealed the band have never stopped trying to get him to change his mind.

Bass player for Queen, John Deacon, famously quit the band after Freddie Mercury's untimely death 1991.

The now 70-year-old, who is estimated to be worth up to £130 million, retired entirely from music and the public eye in 1997 to quietly raise his six children in the South West London home he bought with his first Queen paycheck.

However, Brian May has revealed in a new interview that he has actually asked his ex-bandmate to re-join the group on more than one occasion.

Speaking to RockFM in Spain, May opened up about the likelihood of John Deacon returning to Queen and his and Roger Taylor's efforts to lure him back.

In his own words May said “Of course we love John and we will always will, but we don’t have any significant contact with him now.

That’s the way he wants it, he wanted to cut that tie and to be a private person and we have to respect that

“I don’t think that it would be easy for John to slip back into the arena that we inhabit. In fact, a couple of times we have asked him, but he always says 'that’s not what I do now'. And we have to respect that John doesn’t want to do it.

Reflecting on the 25 years since John left the band, Brian added: "I think it would be difficult for him anyway because things have changed a lot, and Roger and I have adapted a certain amount.

"We’re still very old comeon, but we’re aware of different ways of behaving these days.