Queen by Phil Sutcliffe

Author:Phil Sutcliffe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MBI
Published: 2011-08-21T04:00:00+00:00

A lot of larking about ensued—one highlight, Taylor’s arrest at the Monaco Grand Prix Formula One race and subsequent expulsion from the principality for reasons never specified. But soon—although this was definitely a rest, not a trial separation—Taylor (in Montreux), May (L.A.), and Mercury (Munich) all returned to the studio to record “solo.”

Only Deacon spent most of their break at home—apart from a family trip to Switzerland, which detoured into playing some bass for Taylor. But while the bassist appeared steady and domestic, a 1985 interview with Martin Townsend of The Hit revealed his anguished frustration during Queen’s nine-month “sabbatical” with both the band’s development and his own limitations: “I need something to fill up my time, but I can’t make a solo album because I can’t sing. I mean basically I went spare, really, because we were doing so little. I got bored and actually quite depressed. . . .” When Mary Turner of Westwood 1 radio perceptively asked him whether this inability to sing left “a void” in his musical life, he replied, “Yes. It’s awful. It’s like being in a wheelchair because you can’t actually express yourself in the way that you’d like to. . . . It’s a handicap, a great handicap, in terms of writing songs.”

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