Queen - Under Pressure (with Lyrics & Subtitles)
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Queen - Under Pressure (en) Lyrics
This is Queen The Greatest,
and this week we celebrate one of the
biggest collaborations
in rock history.
It’s Queen and David Bowie’s
Under Pressure.
By 1981, Queen had bought the famous
Mountain Studios in Montreux –
and it was during one
recording session
there, that Studio Engineer
Dave Richards
made an impromptu phone call.
"They were recording there
and, David knew that I was in town,
and phoned me up and asked me if I’d
come down, if I’d like to go down
and see what was happening.
So I went down and these
things happen,
you know, suddenly you’re writing
something together and it was totally
spontaneous, it certainly
wasn’t planned.
It was peculiar."
"Well, I think the process
was we were all drunk,
and in the studio,
and we were just for
fun we were playing
all sorts of old songs.
I remember a couple of
old Cream songs,
and whatever came into our heads
and I think David said
"look, hang on a minute,
why don’t we write one of our own?”
"We were fooling around
and then just sort of
jamming with tracks
and suddenly we said 'why don’t we
just see what we can do
on the spur of the moment?’"
"Then there's the pressure
of his majesty, David, being there,
and everybody wanted to look suave
and quick with ideas and stuff."
"Deacy of course came up
with this riff, ding, ding, ding,
de de, ding, ding."
"Bom, bom, bom, de, le, dah, dah."
"Ding, ding, ding,
"He kept playing that over and
over and over again."
"And then we went
for a pizza and he forgot it.
Completely escaped his mind.
We got back and I remembered it."
"And of course we're used to
playing together and now we have
this other guy there, who’s also
inputting, inputting, inputting."
"David’s idea to put
all these clicks and claps,
and then it just, the
sort of track grew."
"And by that time David
was very impassioned with it and
he had a vision in his head I think.
It’s quite a difficult process and
somebody has to back off and actually
I did back off which
is unusual for me."
The result of that long night
was Under Pressure, and
when released in October 1981,
gave Queen their second UK number 1,
and became a massive hit
across the globe.
Due to touring commitments, the band
were unable to make a promo video –
and so Director David Mallet captured
the essence of the track
in a beautifully
crafted montage of archive footage.
The song became a permanent feature
in subsequent Queen shows,
and was one of the stand out moments
at the Freddie Mercury Tribute concert
where David Bowie and Annie Lennox
joined Roger, Brian and John
for a truly spine tingling
performance.
Without doubt one of Queen’s
biggest hits
and it was no surprise when readers of
Rolling Stone Magazine
recently voted it
as one of the greatest music
collaborations of all time.
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