This weekend marked the 72nd birthday of Queen bassist John Deacon, who retired from the music enterprise over 25 years in the past.

His former bandmate, Roger Taylor, who continues to be performing within the group with Brian May and Adam Lambert, paid tribute to the legend on Instagram.

The Queen drummer posted a black and white picture of himself with Deacon and easily captioned it: “Happy Birthday John!!!”

Express.co.uk has beforehand spoken solely with Roger about when he final noticed Deacon, who took Freddie Mercury's dying actually onerous.

The retired star as been dwelling a quiet life in southwest London out of the highlight.

Roger stated: “No we don’t actually [stay in touch]. John has sort of consciously excluded himself from the world. He doesn’t like engaging in contact with anybody I think. I think he’s very fragile and we respect that.

“Although he’s still obviously our sort of business partner in a way; our silent business partner. He enjoys the financial rewards, but he really doesn’t want anything to do with the music industry anymore.”

Roger added: “I don’t think he feels he wants to handle it and all the stuff that goes with it. So no we don’t keep in touch actually.”

Roger shared that he remembers the final time he noticed Deacon in individual was within the bar on the We Will Rock You musical round 20 years in the past.