{"id":326942,"date":"2026-08-21T20:50:41","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326942\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T20:50:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T20:50:41","slug":"former-queen-bassist-barry-mitchell-dies-he-will-be-greatly-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326942\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Queen Bassist Barry Mitchell Dies: \u2018He Will Be Greatly Missed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barry Mitchell, who briefly played bass for Queen<\/a> in the band\u2019s early years, has died.<\/p>\n

The legendary rock band<\/a>‘s official archivist, Greg Brooks, confirmed Mitchell\u2019s death in a Facebook post<\/a> on Thursday (Aug. 20). Mitchell played with the legendary rock group from 1970 to 1971, before John Deacon joined as Queen\u2019s longtime bassist.<\/p>\n

\u201cTerribly sad news just received that early Queen bass player (circa 1970), Barry Mitchell, has passed away,\u201d Brooks wrote alongside a photo of the late musician<\/a>. \u201cHe will be greatly missed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell was the second bassist to play with the “Bohemian Rhapsody” hitmakers<\/a>, following Mike Grose. Queen released its self-titled debut album in 1973.<\/p>\n

Looking back on his time with the rock group in a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone, Mitchell recalled performing around England while the band was still developing its sound. He also admitted that he didn\u2019t recognize Queen\u2019s potential at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t see the potential,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s crazy to say this now, but it\u2019s the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

After leaving the band, Mitchell continued his music career, performing with acts such as Crushed Butler<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No cause of death has been publicly announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry Mitchell, who briefly played bass for Queen in the band\u2019s early years, has died. The legendary rock…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,666,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-326942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326942","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=326942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}