For anyone wondering his exact words were:
Interviewer: The last album Hot Space didn’t really do that well
Interviewer: Um, what do you think accounted for that?
John: I don’t know,um, I personally didn’t like it very much
John: No not when it was finished
Interviewer: I talked to Brian May the other day and he said he was very satisfied with it.
John: Oh yeah? I didn’t like it really. Um, and I also, it was all a bit much in one direction. And uh, in America I know we lost a bit of fans, especially from the rock side, because of the direction. And now we’re having to pull back which is quite hard.
Interviewer: It does seem that you have a lot of different sides to the band. Like you got Brian May pulling it in a very rock like direction.
John: Yes, yes that’s true.
Interviewer: Where as Freddie you got-
John: No Freddie writes his own style of songs. Which tend to be more melodic. Yeah, and ballad like. He doesn’t really tend to write any heavy songs. Well, he used to in the early days. And Roger whose writing has improved a lot over the last few years. And there’s me as well. I tend to uh, go towards a more, you know, I quite like a funk style a bit and a bit more poppy. In a way more that sort of thing. So you know, we do sort of have these pulls in different directions. Which is a problem really.
Interviewer: Well who on earth pulled it that in the funk direction after that for hot space?
John: Well I don’t know really. That’s difficult in a way.
Interviewer: It behooves me
John: Yeah, it behooves me as well. And no cause we had a big success with Another Bites the Dust right?
Interviewer: Oh I see. So it was an extension of that?
John: Sort of in a way, yeah. I don’t know. Freddie wanted to do two or three things like that.
Interviewer: Which turned into a whole album?
John: Well, not a whole album but a lot of it really, yeah.
The whole interview can be found here. It’s from 1984, during John and Rogers press in Japan. Right after their TV interview.
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