Singer: Queen
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Song: Under Pressure
Queen - Under Pressure Subtitles (vtt) (04:25-265-0-en) (PARTIAL PREVIEW)
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This is Queen The Greatest,
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and this week we celebrate one of the
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biggest collaborations
in rock history.
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It’s Queen and David Bowie’s
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Under Pressure.
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By 1981, Queen had bought the famous
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Mountain Studios in Montreux –
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and it was during one
recording session
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there, that Studio Engineer
Dave Richards
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made an impromptu phone call.
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"They were recording there
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and, David knew that I was in town,
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and phoned me up and asked me if I’d
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come down, if I’d like to go down
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and see what was happening.
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So I went down and these
things happen,
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you know, suddenly you’re writing
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something together and it was totally
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spontaneous, it certainly
wasn’t planned.
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It was peculiar."
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"Well, I think the process
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was we were all drunk,
and in the studio,
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and we were just for
fun we were playing
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all sorts of old songs.
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I remember a couple of
old Cream songs,
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and whatever came into our heads
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and I think David said
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"look, hang on a minute,
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why don’t we write one of our own?”
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"We were fooling around
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and then just sort of
jamming with tracks
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and suddenly we said 'why don’t we
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just see what we can do
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on the spur of the moment?’"
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"Then there's the pressure
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of his majesty, David, being there,
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and everybody wanted to look suave
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and quick with ideas and stuff."
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"Deacy of course came up
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with this riff, ding, ding, ding,
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de de, ding, ding."
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"Bom, bom, bom, de, le, dah, dah."
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"Ding, ding, ding,
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de de, ding, ding."
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"He kept playing that over and
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over and over again."
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"And then we went
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for a pizza and he forgot it.
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Completely escaped his mind.
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We got back and I remembered it."
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"And of course we're used to
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playing together and now we have
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this other guy there, who’s also
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inputting, inputting, inputting."
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"David’s idea to put
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all these clicks and claps,
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and then it just, the
sort of track grew."
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"And by that time David
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was very impassioned with it and
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he had a vision in his head I think.
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