ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

Mike Grose moved up to London from his native Cornwall to join the newly formed Queen. Mercury took him clothes shopping before their debut gig, but Grose split the crotch of his new velvet trousers on the train home. Was it a bad omen? Grose played a handful of dates before realising he needed a proper job and joining his family’s haulage business. “Mike was a massive and monolithic bass player,” said Brian May after Grose’s death in 2019. A friend of a friend of Roger Taylor’s, Mitchell’s early performance with Queen at London’s Imperial College in August 1970 was included on last year’s Queen I box set. He played 11 dates with the band but bowed out after a support slot to Genesis. “I wanted to do something more…

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