Uploaded by chipo312009 on Feb 26, 2009
"Under Pressure" is a 1981 song by Queen and David Bowie. It marked Queen's first released collaboration with another recording artist, and is featured on their 1982 album Hot Space. The song reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart. It was also number 31 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s.
Queen had been working on the song under the title "Feel Like" but were not yet satisfied with the result.
The final version that became "Under Pressure" evolved from a jam session the band had with Bowie at his studio in Montreux, Switzerland, therefore it was credited as co-written by the five musicians.
According to Queen bassist John Deacon (as quoted in a French magazine in 1984), however, the song's primary musical songwriter was Freddie Mercury — though all contributed to the arrangement. The earlier, embryonic version of the song without Bowie "Feel Like" is widely available in bootleg form.
In more recent interviews, Queen guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor have credited the bass riff to Deacon; Bowie also said on his website that the bassline was already written before he became involved. In any case, the September 2005 edition of online music magazine Stylus singled out the bassline as the best in popular music history.
The first title found for this song was "People on Streets". It then became "Under Pressure".
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The greatest FRONTMAN EVER...What he does here is not "human"...One word to sum up this whole video :
EARGASM
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In the palm of his hand in witch they lay
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eyyyyyyyyyy yooooooooooooooooooo freddie = class!
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Increíble la voz que tenia !
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Queen Rocks.
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Freddie Mercury: Fuck you
Crowd: *Cheers and applauds.
ill take a fuck you from the king of rock anytimeee
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Ero, Ero EEEEEEEEERO, IRA RIRO REROOOOOO
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mataria por regresar en el tiempo para poder ir a ese concierto
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To all of those who disliked: 1:49
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freddie is somewhere with all other great musicians that passed away. a place in which i'm pretty sure justin bieber and all of his shitty friends won't go.
bosestricks 1 week ago 24
I think I saw Vanilla Ice in the crowd...
mergatroidproduction 1 week ago 21