Barry Mitchell, Queen’s second bassist, has died.
The group’s official archivist, Greg Brooks, announced Mitchell’s passing in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n
“Terribly sad news just received that early Queen bass player, Barry Mitchell, has passed away,” he wrote alongside a throwback black-and-white photo of Mitchell. “His anecdotes at the convention were fascinating and offered rare insight. He will be greatly missed.”<\/p>\n
Mitchell’s age and cause of death have not been publicly disclosed.<\/p>\n
Mitchell replaced Queen’s original bassist Mike Grose in 1970, but his time with the band was short-lived. He only performed 13 gigs alongside legendary members Freddie Mercury, Brian May and Roger Taylor between August 1970 and January 1971.<\/p>\n
After his departure, the trio performed with Doug Bogie for two gigs before John Deacon joined them in February 1971, completing the We Will Rock You band’s most famous line-up.<\/p>\n
During an interview with Rolling Stone in 2018, Mitchell was asked why he left the now-legendary group, and he initially joked that he was “fired because they thought I was useless”.<\/p>\n
He then conceded that he “wasn’t enthusiastic enough about their music” during those early years.<\/p>\n
“This didn’t necessarily go in the direction I wanted to go,” he explained. “At the time, they weren’t at all the cult band you all know. I didn’t see the potential. It’s crazy to say this now but it’s the truth.”<\/p>\n
Before Queen, Mitchell played in the band Crushed Butler, later named Tiger.<\/p>\n
He is survived by two daughters, according to his Facebook page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry Mitchell, Queen’s second bassist, has died.The group’s official archivist, Greg Brooks, announced Mitchell’s passing in a Facebook…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[122916,122918,9,24,63,122917,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-326619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-barry-mitchell","tag-greg-brooks","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen-bass-player","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}