Following The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992, Deacon performed only 2 more times with the remaining members of Queen, in a charity concert in 1993[1] and a one-off rendition of “The Show Must Go On” in 1997 with Mercury’s friend Elton John(who had sung the track with the band at Mercury’s tribute) at the opening of the Bejart ballet in Paris. He played bass guitar on the final Queen song, “No-One but You (Only the Good Die Young)” – released that year on the Queen Rocks compilation – after which he retired from the music industry. He did not participate in the Queen + Paul Rodgers collaboration, in Queen’s induction into theRock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001, in Queen’s performance during the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics, or theQueen + Adam Lambert collaboration.