Former QUEEN Bassist Shuns The Spotlight

Grant Rollings of U.K.'s The Sun reports: While the surviving members of QUEEN prepare to perform to millions of "The X Factor" viewers (U.K. reality TV competition),there will be one noticeable absentee.

Bassist John Deacon, 58, a man who has turned his back on everything that Simon Cowell's hit ITV show desires — fame.

While QUEEN guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor were performing sold-out concerts across the globe with Paul Rodgers on vocals, Deacon decided to shun the Freddie Mercury-less QUEEN.

He has become a recluse, refusing to have anything to do with show business.

Read the entire report from The Sun.