1996 Queen + Bejart : Ballet For The Masses (Episode 42)

Revisiting the extraordinary collaboration between Queen, Versace and the revolutionary choreographer, Maurice Bejart (with some Mozart added for good measure!) - and featuring what would be John Deacon's final live performance.
Queen+Bejart : Ballet For Life - Performance film directed by David Mallet, Documentary film directed by Lynne Wake.
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[@jaylene.turner6524]

John is dearly missed, but I hope he’s found his happiness.

[@dnorthcott9332]

John Deacon is dearly missed. I hope he’s enjoying his retirement. He deserves his privacy. ❤️

[@HundXanthippe]

I understand John Deacon. He as lost a close friend and sees/ feels during this performance that Queen is no longer Queen but is even giving up the reins. The become spectators, have / will lose control of their work.. For the first time in their careers they have to submit/ adapt to others.

[@a.t.m873]

This looks so cool. It makes me imagine what a Queen Cirque Du Soleil would be like. I know that was John Deacon's last performance and I wish him every good luck.

[@ginka2073]

Beautiful performance💞 Oh John Deacon　Please live happily in your world❣️

[@lamisticahumana]

My Godness, this is LEGIT SPECTACULAR collaboration. The ballet got along with Queen choosen songs. But, these was the last ever Deaky appearance with Queen. (CMIIW). These was a massive tribute for legacy of Freddie Mercury. Sure he would love to see it.

[@joribremer5260]

Nope later the video of No one but you video came out

[@niceiamorais1790]

Llļkkkkkkkkkhhylpllkk

[@EvoDevo2004]

@@joribremer5260 Last time John performed in public was this ballet. You can easily tell John was struggling, even in that video.

[@midnightrose2127]

@@joribremer5260 It was his last public appearance, and then No One But You was the end for him. That video made me ugly cry at the end when he is just sitting there watching the other two sing.

[@midnightrose2127]

I felt so sad for Deacy in this video. He lost his brother, and his grief is still so fresh. I hope he has found contentment, and I hope he sometimes peeks in here and reads the comments about him...I've never seen a negative one, we all have mad love for John!

[@kiahmadison8541]

Freddie would have loved this. Ballet set to Queen music is a fitting tribute...... Deaky we still love you.🤗

[@valeriedalby3538]

To Mr.John Deacon....I so hope you are living your best life...God bless you and your family. ❤. I love Queen no matter what they do...then and now!!

[@gudjon_jonsson]

I dont want to sound ungrateful but can we please have another year of these mini doc's. We all need it

[@francoise4090]

I am french and i think that Freddie would have liked to dance and to work with mr Bejart a great great dancer and ballet maker...sure Freddie would have appreciated him very very much!!!...sorry for my english.... thank you for the video

[@marianobarradomuxi3293]

Very nice to see John Deacon again !.

[@tinapeds4901]

I will love Queen until the day I die 💖🎶🎸🎤 🎵 There will never be another band like them. Sure miss Freddie very much.

[@tabathawolf3113]

I love this band

[@gakkieNL]

Deacy is not forgotten!

[@lillianc.lausell]

Beautiful tribute to Queen's music! John Deacon a last brilliant performance to honor his beloved friend Freddie Mercury. I say bravo to John for his sacrifice while mourning the loss of his friend! Wishing the remaining members of this awesome band much love & blessings as they continue to share with us their amazing talents. 💙 LILLIAN 🙏

[@GabyBraca7]

Losing John is as painful as losing Freddie. I hope he managed to find peace.

[@fastica]

Relax, he retired to live a family life.

[@pamrush5078]

Freddie loved ballet especially how his 70s stage outfits were ballet inspired

[@mirapiccolo6601]

Great wonderful collaboration for a unforgettable ballet...Bejart was a innovative and a genius...Love this video and love the sweet and fab John....Queen forever the best band .....

[@shirabetty8483]

Very important moment in their history! Thank you Deacy! Thank you Bejart, Thank you Queen! And wearing bananas is simply, fantastic to see! アリガトウ！

[@charllectric4842]

His contributions to the band were so much, that even if John is not playing anymore you can still feel his presence on the stage. Pretty much the same with Freddie.

[@tylerbleveys9373]

John Deacon’s last live Performance

[@paulbrooks4395]

I feel John’s pain, he probably had terrible anxiety and stage fright in addition to the loss of Freddie. It probably contributed or even amplified it. I’ve had a few trigger life events that have been very difficult to get over, but nothing compared to losing a close friend like that.

[@acedepth]

(Sorry for the year late response) I feel without Freddie to take the spotlight together with the loss of a close friend for John I think it was all too much for John, John was also the first of the band to become a farther and after 20 years of touring and playing music it would be a good time to retire so he had more time to himself and his family

[@Mmercury22]

I hope John is doing well. 💓

[@pattimiller6229]

The scene with the outstretched hands and bodies breaks my heart..says it all..masterpiece….

[@bluebell3720]

I feel uncomfortable with that I find it dusturbing.I dont understand why they did that.

[@pattimiller6229]

My interpretation is the horrific loss of lives from AIDS..we’ve come a long way, but not all the way yet. The hands reaching for help…sad, but an awakening for all of us..then and now

[@annetteboudreau7771]

I have this ballet ''Ballet for Life'' by Maurice Béjart on DVD with comments by Brian and Roger. I watched it several times and will watch it again. It is very touching.

[@prathamdhawal]

we miss you deaky.

[@JanS1]

I wasn't aware of this. Very nice, I'll seek out more videos. But, it definitely brought a tear for Deaky 💔❤‍🩹. I hope he knows how much we miss him. Also, lovely of Elton to step in. Such a dear, dear, friend of Freddie's.

[@FernandoBenitez979]

What a memories!...I was 17 years old and I watched a report in an argentinian TV channel...and I was in ecstasy! My band had another return!!! But at that time i was a little bit desperate because i felt Queen was becoming a classic band, which they are, but clearly a band which was like in the past, with nothing much more to offer...and look at now...they are classic, inmortal and sounds in everywhere.... MY BAND!

[@oliviaenrico7944]

Wow non ci sono parole per descrivere la bellezza della musica dei Queen unita al balletto! Unici e leggendari, Freddie sarebbe stato così entusiasta😍😍😍😍

[@TitaIrzanOfficial]

Even though it would be very, very different without Freddie, but the show must go on ... yeah Long live QUEEN. We love you.

[@KaterSchroedinger]

" The Show Must Go On" doesn't mean almost 30 years " cole coffee nostalgia. As Mr. Bejard said, " an artist will never look back ."

[@teodolina3042]

Magnificent!!!!!!!! And Do not forget this day . Do You remember Innuendo un 1991. ? Master Piece

[@blancacbricenodeguglielmin523]

Fue extraordinario ese homenaje del balet con la musica de Queen..a Freddie le hubiese gustado ver esto y me dio gusto que John estuviera ayi

[@willo8794]

My heart breaks for John Deacon 😑

[@EvoDevo2004]

For all three of them, but Brian and Roger managed to get past the grief eventually with a lot of help. I understand why John could not. Sometimes the pain of loss is just too deep.

[@JUANJEN75]

Thank you for all 💕💕💕... John, wee missed you.

[@estelacruz7166]

Nós te amamos John 💓✌️🇧🇷

[@user-vx3ee3iz5k]

Музыкальное Великолепие!Queen Forever!🎼🎼🎼👍👍👍👍

[@anamariazavalagonzalez156]

Que belleza de combinación la música de Queen y el balet, felicidades 🩰🎼👏

[@begulamemes2555]

Wow even though I have a new obsession I still love Queen

[@mehrdadabbaszadeh9307]

Lovely cute John

[@annamariaingrosso1021]

Meravigliosa, questa iniziativa, un'alchimia fantastica di arti diverse: penso che Freddie sarebbe stato felice di parteciparvi giacché amava la musica classica e il balletto e curava anche il look. Bellissimo video. GRAZIE

[@KiddsockTV]

It shows you how Queen's music has transcended...

[@conchaq.6567]

Good afternoon.... Great video about the ballet, and to see John Deacon, Roger Taylor and Brian May, playing together, is a real treat and a real pleasure. It should always be like this, QUEEN forever. Congratulations to the choreographer for such a brilliant staging of the dancers. I love the QUEEN boys 💕 FOREVER 👑❤

[@lornafraserwaterworth559]

Fantastic Queen………….. wonderful ballet 🌹♥️🌹

[@fugithegreat]

I saw the short just before this and thought, 30 seconds isn't enough time to cover this! Then I scrolled down a bit further and here was this video. I would love to watch the whole ballet, seems like a wonderful collaboration!

[@brimissymoore]

You can rent it on Amazon Prime.

[@MickeyInn]

On KZbin - kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJ2VlnyPd8hlkLM

[@wellrideuponanomnibus2536]

Oh, John... 💘

[@giselmachaca3472]

Me siento trizte por saber que John quizas nunca vuelva a Queen, y que no volveremos a ver ni escuchar la voz de Freddie en vivo, pero aún tengo esperanzas de que John acepte volver. Creo que a Freddie le hubiese gustado que Queen continue, como dice la canción " Contínua... Contínua como si nada realmente importára", en mi opinion así Queen seguiria manteniendo a nuestro Freddie vivo en sus canciones y conciertos.

[@BrooksysBassCorner]

The performance in London in 1998 was fabulous, I think Freddie's mum and sister were in attendance that night too. Hairs up on the arms performance!

[@queenforever5928]

Queen is my life 💖💖💖💖

[@patriciacabanez9716]

Genius!!! Queen forever!!! 👑👑👑👑🇦🇷🧚‍♀️🧚‍♀️

[@artisadialect_]

Oh God am sure there so many kind of things like this to fall more and more for Queen

[@Vintage_Aesthetic]

Hey queen fans! Glad to see people are still active lol.

[@lisaelisa7618]

Love this so much ❤️❤️.. QUEEN forever ❤️..

[@louisehutton5426]

It's amazing Freddie would be so amazed he loved ballet so good x

[@aleksanderfinstad5785]

Queen is not the same without John and Freddie.

[@ManassésGabriel-o8y]

Queen was at its peak in 1996

[@dilarakeskin2231]

Real Legendsss 🌟👑

[@cla07]

...et c est ainsi que naissent de fabuleuses rencontres dans la vie....waouw Merci Queen Merci Béjart it's so wonderful ! Et John est si touchant...Merci à vous Brian, Roger , John et à Freddie de son étoile dans le cosmos 💚💚🎶💜💜😌💚💫💜

[@sameeknowsitall]

Queen

[@dusceliaquisues2459]

queen will never die

[@alexanderafanasyev3459]

Why didn't you make video about album Miracle?

[@bettybaby63]

So wonderful & beautiful and then we see John’s pain. Bless them all. They all should be so proud as they achieved so much.

[@angelesllorentellorente8648]

Viva Queen!!!!

[@kristandagley7089]

My heart is beyond full of love for this! I wish I could be in the front row. Tears in my eyes and cheering for all. Stunningly beautiful, yet bittersweet 🖤

[@mirelybarros9992]

A beautiful act for a great cause, a beautiful attitude! 💕

[@normagraciamartinez3446]

SE SIENTE TANTA NOSTALGIA VER A ÉSTOS GRANDES ÍCONOS DE LA MÚSICA Y LA VOZ ESPECTACULAR DE ELTHON INTERPRETANDO A QUEEN AL GRANDE FREDDIE MERCURY!!!! 😍👏👏👏

[@elizabethtavares1302]

I'm still perplexed by those who question this Band, make meaningless comparisons, such is the uniqueness of Queen. The truth is that there is no judgment for the choices of the heart.

[@christinagav5240]

We love you and miss you John ❤️

[@lumaalessandra7535]

I love this song, it's amazing!!!!!!! 😊😍❤️💙💚💛🤎💕♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ And I also love ballet, a thing that Freddie loved...

[@youcare_somuch2433]

I wish Freddie got to see the ballet ❤️

[@SuperRuiva13]

Amazing! In this episode we have my two loves Queen and ballet! The best rock band in the Universe!!! 🤟🏻👑🎸🎹🎤🥁🙏🏻💕

[@scapegoatiscariot2767]

I think that whether you knew Freddie Mercury as the popinjay Rockstar or the personal friend, if you loved him, you loved him. That must have been most unpleasant and dark for John. I remember getting the news. It felt like family had died. I sank in my seat, week. He had been there since I was a preteen, singing The Bohemian Rhapsody from some other realm of riding, music and singing. He was quite literally, unreal. Who could ever seem like that? He could, he did. How is it such beautiful lives often end so sadly and abrupt? 🤟💔🏳️‍🌈✌️

[@abwesendesrica7416]

hello to all the queen fans

[@faviolasantillan5106]

Hi!

[@stenia4851]

Niezapomniany ,zespół ,a zwłaszcza mój idol ,ukochany Freddie❤️🎶🎹🎤👑

[@tonydipietro4225]

For Roger Taylor, a self expressed anti theatre person, to be entranced by a type of theatre says a lot. Wish I could have seen it.

[@EvoDevo2004]

The entire ballet is somewhere here on YT.

[@toshinoriyagi8072]

I like seaside rendezvous

[@birutegrafinina968]

💫Hi!! Thank you for impressive video! Always are interesting hear about Queen more and more!! The one of the best band in the world!! Queen forever!! Wish you all the best!! With love from Lithuania!! ( No russia!!)🇱🇹

[@user-nx9sc3zj6w]

С любовью из России!! With ❤️ from Russia!! 😉

[@claudiagonzagarodriguezvil3213]

Núnca abra otro igual. Núnca amo a Queen

[@claudiagonzagarodriguezvil3213]

John canta espectacuar con el grupo.

[@turtlesquad88]

We love you deacy I respect your decision 100% I don't care if you don't want to play again one last time and I don't care if you take it to your grave if you don't, it was your decision and no matter what we all still love you❤️ the show must go on

[@pina7676]

it’s hard for me to watch them perform without Freddie imagine How difficult for John this must’ve been, 😢

[@marcelaaguirre6147]

Que gran guitarrista es Brian ! Es genial con la guitarra te hace soñar

[@deguito579]

Beautiful

[@emilianocruz11]

John and freedie are missed playing together with brian and roger since the last show from 1986 to 1991 and john retired in 1997 😢😢😢😢

[@javdestiny]

The creation that proved Queen would become an intrinsic part of society rather than simply a rock band.

[@giobabi]

God bless John…he made the right choice… Freddie would have been proud of him…

[@user-kd4jg7zt5g]

Я 8 лет занималась классическим танцем потом еще 5 лет спортивными танцами постоянно в доме были стилажи с книгами очень много там и были мои растяжки народный танец я не угаммонная была меня трудно остановить

[@dianagable6640]

For me, Queen music doesn't fit In a time period. It is timeless and always relevant.

[@gouravdas9494]

Everything is good. But Queen with jhon and Freddie is best.

[@dacegermane47]

Exactly- Queen is Queen only with Freddie👑 John👑, Roger 👑and Brian 👑

[@TheaterPup]

@@dacegermane47 Not even slightly up to you. 🙄

[@erin0719]

@@dacegermane47 absolutely 😀

[@TheaterPup]

@@erin0719 I really doubt Freddie would want to be responsible for Queen ending, no matter how romantic you find the idea.

[@erin0719]

@@TheaterPup but queen is not ending, as long as we listen their songs, they're one of the most beloved bands everywhere, Freddie's still an icon, one of the greatest voices (the greatest, in my opinion), there's no ending even if Roger and Brian decide to retire too.

[@killerqueen4203]

i love that !!!

[@oldisgold6954]

💕💕💕 my Queen 💕💕💕

[@ug1969]

So nice to find this video. At the time, I was studying ballet, and randomly found about thus show on the French television. I recorded it right away, and watched dozens and dozens of times along the years. I might know all the show by heart 😅 Many years later, I moved to Switzerland and watched the show live at least three times. For me, this is one of the most amazing pieces of art ever Queen/ Béjart/ Versace/ Mozart 💚💚💚💚 - and now it almost makes me sad the watch it again, because I cannot re-live that sense of wonder I experienced the first time I saw it. By the way, today I am such a fan of Adam Lambert, will watch Queen in London soon, so the circle is closing :)

[@Phelip23]

Queen Forever!🤴🇧🇷✌

[@jerrycastillo8341]

Long Live Queen & Freddie Mercury 🥰♥️♥️♥️😘

[@lucioalbertogonzalezsanche9128]

Es hermoso quiero verlo.

[@claudiapane5857]

Meravigliosa combinazione tra le due arti!

[@amangogna68]

Fantastic !

[@stewartarmstrong3215]

So I learnt 2 things today. 1. How and why Elton sang "The Show Must Go On". And 2, When John actually decided he can't do it anymore and what was his last performance with the band. I love seeing these video's every week. Some things I know but there's so much I've learnt. Amazing stuff.......... Queen Forever....

[@lauralokbmmasi8497]

Gracias Queen Official, por acercarnos este video y por su traducción, al español !!!!!!!!!!!!! Freddie me quitas el aliento 💜💜💜

[@Johnny_SaaS]

Fantastic

[@karenscigliano9787]

I can't imagine what losing Freddie was like for these 3 guys. We all know what it felt like, as removed fans...so I totally get why Deac bowed out...he tried, give him that. Their Evolution....