JGD as chairman of the Jávea branch

of Conservatives Abroad

with Valery Gergiev
Dir. Mariinsky, St. Petersburg (2015)

Boris Christoff as Philip II
Salzburg 1960

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Christa Ludwig
Così fan tutte (Salzburg) - 1960

Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf DBE
Marschallin (Salzburg) - 1960

Wilhelmina Hardee with my
pianist friend Agustín Anievas

The Athelings - British Cadet Rifle Team
DCRA Ranges Ottawa August 1957
(JGD front left)

Dame Janet Baker CH, DBE
On the occasion of Gluck "Orfeo" recording
(for Erato) Glyndebourne 1982 

EMI Arabia (Dubai) : Arab music catalogue of 1997

Concerts Costa Blanca

Tombstone of Dr. Leonard Gillespie MD, RN
(distaff cousin & Nelson's Physician to the Fleet) at Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

Glyndebourne
Gardens & the old theatre

A tribute to Abdel Halim Hafez from his producer, long-time friend and partner/director of Soutelphan, Magdi El Amroussi as well as a short biography by Nizar Homsi (Dubai, 1996)

A kindly "tribute" (1997) from the designers to EMI Dubai featuring JGD as "Oum Koulsoum" upon whose 1926 Alexandria HMV reissues he had been working ....

One of the rarest of her programmes - and my 2nd encounter with Maria Callas at the Montréal Forum 17th October 1958

The death of EMI
(at the hands of Chairman "E-Coli" & Guy Hands !)

My friend Christopher Robbie
as Charles Darwin (Moraira 2016)

Gramophone Awards 1980 Savoy Hotel : the great Turandot, Dame Eva Turner, makes presentation of
Award for Best Choral Recording 1979 to JGD

(for Erato)

Dau. Alexandra's wedding
Pyrton, Oxfordshire
27th March 2004

Charterhouse
Godalming

Oriental Club
London

JGD & Lorna Ainsworth
76th birthday breakfast
Parador, Jávea 2016

JGD & Lorna Ainsworth
US Navy League
Thanksgiving Lunch
Pepe's, Alcalali 2015

Douglas Hall - my residence
at McGill, Montréal (1958-59)

Sunbeam Alpine
1960s

Crewing a Dutch Banjer from
Bordeaux - via Sète - to Kyrenia
June 1970

Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf  : Recording supervised by John Deacon att the studios of EMI Greece 1974 (also of Britten's Young Person's  Guide to the Orchestra) both narrated in Greek by renowned actor Kostas Kastanas (link to story at front page).

Grandmother Caroline Deacon (née Pook)
& sons John Nissen & William Oliver 

+ daughters Dulcie & Hilary (c. 1919)

JGD - 1948 ready for
Southey Hall Prep School, Great Bookham

Pauline Rice, EMI Greece's John D, Heinz
Agronomist David Rice & Irene Deacon
Ekali Club, Athens c. 1973

Our great friend US pianist
Agustín Anievas : Teulada 2004

A curiosity from my archives ... !
Beecham's Russian Season at
Drury Lane June/July 1914

Launch of EMI's 1st-ever full colour
Arab music catalogue - Athens 1977
(l to r) Yanni Primikiris, Charles & Robert Khayat,
John Deacon, Bernard Baida & Mozart Chahine

John & Irene Deacon & children
Christmas 1976
Ekali, Athens

Dinner chez Edmundo & Susie Ros
Jávea, c.1990

Grandson John (VIII), with grandfather, at his christening
at The Old Charterhouse, March 2004

At daughter Alexandra's wedding
Pyrton, Oxfordshire 2004

Deacons at Christmas Common
Oxfordshire 1978

Conifer Record's launch of the Lionel Blair LP for TV 1983 (spot the bimbo ?)

November 2005 : Press assignment -
Lorna & I sent on Sea Dream's re-positioning to
Miami to write about the trip
(95 passengers, 110 crew = paradise !)

EMI Greece 1977 Sales Director John Deacon
with Costas Baladis & Yannis Primikiris - the Export team

Wiener Staatsoper Jan/Feb 1962
Nine performances in 10 days !

John D & Lorna Ainsworth
at Glyndebourne

Grace Bumbry - 1982 
press reception at the Savoy, London for launch of her single "Natalie" (Macini)

Fellow Old Carthusian, Christopher Raeburn 
(Director of Opera Productions, Decca Records) 
& long standing friend of JGD at lunch in
Spain, Feb 2008

Gramophone Awards 1983 Savoy Hotel : Sir David Willcocks CBE MC, 
Director of Music King's College, Cambridge 1957-74 makes presentation of 
the award for Best Contemporary recording 1982 (Erato, France) to JGD

Nigel Kenyon & John Deacon 
Bodeite winners of House Racquets Under 16s (1956)