Under Pressure

"Under Pressure"
Cover of the EMI pressing
Single by Queen and David Bowie
from the album Hot Space
B-side "Soul Brother"
Released 26 October 1981
Format
Recorded July 1981
Studio Mountain Studios, Montreux
Genre Rock
Length 4:08
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
  • Queen
  • David Bowie
Queen singles chronology
"Flash"
(1980)		 "Under Pressure"
(1981)		 "Body Language"
(1982)
David Bowie singles chronology
"Up the Hill Backwards"
(1981)		 "Under Pressure"
(1981)		 "Wild Is the Wind"
(1981)
Alternative pressing
Cover of the Elektra pressing, distributed in the US, Canada, and Australasia
Music video
"Under Pressure" on YouTube

"Under Pressure" is a 1981 song by the British rock band Queen and the British singer David Bowie. It was included on Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Queen's second number-one hit in their home country (after 1975's "Bohemian Rhapsody", which topped the chart for nine weeks) and Bowie's third (after 1980's "Ashes to Ashes" and the 1975 reissue of "Space Oddity"). The song only peaked at No. 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1982, and would re-chart for one week at No. 45 in the US following Bowie's death in January 2016. It was also number 31 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s.[1] It has been voted the second best collaboration of all time in a poll by the Rolling Stone magazine.[2]

The song was played live at every Queen concert from 1981 until the end of Queen's touring career in 1986.[3][4][5] It is recorded on the live albums Queen Rock Montreal and Live at Wembley '86.[6][7] The song was included on some editions of Queen's first Greatest Hits compilations, such as the original 1981 Elektra release in the US. It is included on the band's compilation albums Greatest Hits II, Classic Queen, and Absolute Greatest[8] as well as Bowie compilations such as Best of Bowie (2002),[9] The Platinum Collection (2005), Nothing Has Changed (2014) and Legacy (2016).

It was certified 2x Platinum in the US by the RIAA, for over two million digital download equivalent units, on 20 March 2018.[10]

Creation

Queen had been working on a song called "Feel Like", but was not satisfied with the result.[11][12] David Bowie had originally come to Mountain Studios to sing back up vocals on another Queen song, "Cool Cat", but his vocals were removed from the final song because he was not satisfied with his performance. Once he got there, they worked together for a while and wrote the song.[13] The final version, which became "Under Pressure", evolved from a jam session that Bowie had with the band at Queen's studio in Montreux, Switzerland. It was credited as being co-written by the five musicians. The scat singing that dominates much of the song is evidence of the jam-beginnings as improvisation. However, according to Queen bassist John Deacon (as quoted in a French magazine in 1984),[14] the song's primary musical songwriter was Freddie Mercury – though all contributed to the arrangement. Brian May recalled to Mojo magazine, in October 2008, that, "It was hard, because you had four very precocious boys and David, who was precocious enough for all of us. David took over the song lyrically. Looking back, it's a great song but it should have been mixed differently. Freddie and David had a fierce battle over that. It's a significant song because of David and its lyrical content."[15] The earlier, embryonic version of the song without Bowie, "Feel Like", is widely available in bootleg form, and was written by Queen drummer Roger Taylor.

There has also been some confusion about who had created the song's bassline. John Deacon said (in Japanese magazine Music life in 1982) that David Bowie created it. In more recent interviews, Brian May and Roger Taylor credited the bass riff to Deacon. Bowie, on his website, said that the bassline was already written before he became involved.[16] Roger Taylor, in an interview for the BBC documentary Queen: the Days of Our Lives, stated that Deacon did indeed create the bassline, stating that all through the sessions in the studio he had been playing the riff over and over. He also claims that when the band returned from dinner, Deacon, amusingly, forgot the riff, but fortunately Taylor was still able to remember it.[17] Brian May clarified matters in a 2016 Mirror Online article, writing that it was actually Bowie, not Taylor, who had inadvertently changed the riff. The riff began as "Deacy began playing, 6 notes the same, then one note a fourth down". After the dinner break, Bowie corrected (actually changed) Deacon's memory of the riff to "Ding-Ding-Ding Diddle Ing-Ding".[18]

Music video

The video for the song features neither Queen nor David Bowie due to touring commitments.[19] Taking the theme of pressure, director David Mallet edited together stock footage of traffic jams, commuter trains packed with passengers, explosions, riots, cars being crushed and various pieces of footage from silent films of the 1920s, most notably Sergei Eisenstein's influential Soviet film Battleship Potemkin, the silent Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring John Barrymore, and F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, a masterpiece of the German Expressionist movement.[19][20] The video explores the pressure-cooker mentality of a culture willing to wage war against political machines, and at the same time love and have fun (there is also footage of crowds enjoying concerts, and lots of black and white kissing scenes).[20] Top of the Pops refused to show the video due to it containing footage of explosions in Northern Ireland, so a choreographed performance was instead shown.[21][22] In 2003, Slant Magazine ranked Under Pressure number 27 among the 100 greatest music videos of all time.[23]

Track listing

7": EMI / EMI 5250 (UK)

Side one
  1. "Under Pressure" (Mercury, May, Taylor, Deacon, Bowie) – 4:08
Side two
  1. "Soul Brother" (Mercury) – 3:38

7": Elektra / E-47235 (US)

Side one
  1. "Under Pressure" (Mercury, May, Taylor, Deacon, Bowie) – 4:08
Side two
  1. "Soul Brother" (Mercury) – 3:38

1988 3" CD: Parlaphone / QUECD9 (UK)

  1. "Under Pressure" - 4:08
  2. "Soul Brother" - 3:40
  3. "Body Language" - 4:33

Personnel

Musicians on original version:

Reception

The September 2005 edition of online music magazine Stylus singled out the bassline as the best in popular music history.[24] In November 2004, Stylus music critic Anthony Miccio commented that "Under Pressure" "is the best song of all time" and described it as Queen's "opus".[25] In 2012, Slant Magazine listed "Under Pressure" as the 21st best single of the 1980s.[26]

Live performances

Although very much a joint project, only Queen incorporated the song into their live shows at the time. Bowie chose not to perform the song before an audience until the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, when he and Annie Lennox sang it as a duet (backed by the surviving Queen members).[27] However, after Mercury's death and the Outside tour in 1995, Bowie performed the song at virtually every one of his live shows, with bassist Gail Ann Dorsey taking Mercury's vocal part. The song also appeared in set lists from A Reality Tour mounted by Bowie in 2004, when he frequently would dedicate it to Freddie Mercury. Queen + Paul Rodgers have recently performed the song; and in summer of 2012, Queen + Adam Lambert toured, including a performance of the song by Lambert and Roger Taylor in each show.[28] While David Bowie was never present for a live performance of the song with Freddie Mercury, Roger Taylor instead filled for backing vocals usually in unison with Mercury, as Mercury took over all of Bowie's parts.

Live recordings

Remixes and other releases

"Under Pressure (Rah Mix)"
Single by Queen and David Bowie
from the album Greatest Hits III
B-side
Released 6 December 1999
Format
Genre Rock
Length
  • 4:08 (album and single)
  • 4:27 (music video)
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Queen
  • David Bowie
Producer(s)
  • Queen
  • David Bowie
Queen singles chronology
"Another One Bites the Dust (Small Soldiers remix)"
(1998)		 "Under Pressure (Rah Mix)"
(1999)		 "We Will Rock You"
(2000)
David Bowie singles chronology
"The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell"
(1999)		 "Under Pressure (Rah Mix)"
(1999)		 "Survive"
(2000)

Rah Mix

A remixed version (called the "Rah Mix") was issued in December 1999 to promote Queen's Greatest Hits III compilation, reaching No. 14 on the UK Singles Chart. The video for the Rah Mix was directed by DoRo, featuring footage of Freddie Mercury from the Wembley concert on 12 July 1986 and David Bowie at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert also at Wembley on 20 April 1992 spliced together using digital technology (with Annie Lennox carefully edited out). This version is featured on the Greatest Hits III compilation, the Rah Mix CD single (as an Enhanced CD video) and the 2011 iTunes LP edition of Hot Space.

Track listing

Two CD singles (one multimedia enhanced) released 6 December 1999 and 7" picture disc released 13 December 1999. As "Bohemian Rhapsody" wins The Song of The Millennium award, this released as B-side under the title "The Song of The Millennium – Bohemian Rhapsody".[31]

CDS No. 1
  1. "Under Pressure (Rah Mix)"
  2. The Song of the Millennium – "Bohemian Rhapsody"
  3. "Thank God It's Christmas"
CDS No. 2
  1. "Under Pressure (Rah Mix – Radio Edit)"
  2. "Under Pressure (Mike Spencer Mix)"
  3. "Under Pressure (Knebworth Mix)"
  4. Enhanced section
7-inch single
  1. "Under Pressure (Rah Mix)"
  2. The Song of the Millennium – "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Other releases

  • It was initially released in US on the Elektra Records US and Canadian versions of Queen's Greatest Hits as a new track.
  • It was released in UK on Queen's (1991) Greatest Hits II (which would later be included in The Platinum Collection (2000, 2002 and 2011) removing the second time David Bowie sings, "This is our last dance."
  • It was released as a bonus track on the Virgin Records reissue of Bowie's Let's Dance in 1995.
  • Hollywood Records remixed the song for their 1992 release, Classic Queen. This version features improved sound quality, but removes Mercury's interjection "that's okay!" at about 0:53.
  • It also appeared on the Bowie compilation Bowie: The Singles 1969-1993 (1993).
  • The original single version appears on disc three of Bowie's The Platinum Collection (2005). This disc was later released separately as The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 (2007).
  • The original single version also appears on Bowie's Nothing Has Changed (2014) and Legacy (2016).
  • An instrumental version appears in the DVD menu for the Hot Space section of Greatest Video Hits 2.
  • It has also been performed, but without the lyrics, by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.[32][33]
  • It was featured nearly in its entirety in the 2010 film It's Kind of a Funny Story, initially as a 'cover' by the patients in a music therapy class at a New York City psychiatric ward, which the film transformed into the authentic song 'performed' by the patients, dressed in glam, in a near music-video style imaginary sequence (with David Bowie and Queen's original vocals and instrumentation).
  • It was featured in the 2009 film World's Greatest Dad, directed by Bobcat Goldthwait.[34]
  • It was featured in a French TV advert for bank LCL in 2018[35]

Other remixes

Mr. Mixx Remix. Mr. Mixx of 2 Live Crew produced a hip-hop remix intended for inclusion as the fourth track on the cancelled 1992 Hollywood Records compilation BASIC Queen Bootlegs.

Lazy Kiss Edit. Released in October 2013 by Brazilian Electro-House duo, Lazy Kiss. This edit/mashup gained exposure through blog filter site, Hype Machine and the Italian music blog, Frequenze Indipendenti.[36]

Mouth Pressure. Released in January 2017 as a part of the Neil Cicierega album Mouth Moods, "Mouth Pressure" pairs the instrumentals from "Under Pressure" with the vocals from Smash Mouth's "All Star".[37][38]

Percy's Pressure. A karoke version of the song was released in September as a part of the soundtrack of the animated Warner Brothers musical film Smallfoot whose lyrics detail one of the central human characters Percy's (voiced by James Corden) fall from fame and his need to bounce back. Additional lyrics were written by Karey Kirkpatrick the films director and his brother Wayne Kirkpatrick. [39]

Charts

In the U.K., "Under Pressure" was Queen's second number-one hit and Bowie's third. Queen's smash hit "Bohemian Rhapsody" reached number one in November 1975, just two weeks after Bowie's "Space Oddity" had done the same. Bowie also topped the British charts in August 1980 with "Ashes To Ashes", his own answer song to "Space Oddity".[40]

Original version

Chart (2009) Peak
position
Ireland (IRMA)[63] 45
Chart (2016) (after Bowie's death) Peak
position
Australia (ARIA)[64] 42
Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40)[42] 37
France (SNEP)[65] 20
Germany (Official German Charts)[47] 71
Ireland (IRMA)[66] 51
Italy (FIMI)[67] 29
Netherlands (Single Top 100)[50] 66
Spain (PROMUSICAE)[68] 28
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)[54] 59
Switzerland (Schweizer Hitparade)[55] 49
UK Singles (Official Charts Company)[56] 43
US Billboard Hot 100[69] 45

"Rah Mix"

Country (1999)Peak position
UK14
Netherlands19

Certifications

Region Certification
Italy (FIMI)[70] Platinum
United Kingdom (BPI)[71] Gold

My Chemical Romance and the Used version

"Under Pressure"
Single by My Chemical Romance and the Used
from the album In Love and Death
Released 12 April 2005
Format Digital download
Recorded 2005
Genre Alternative rock[72]
Length 3:32
Label Reprise
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Howard Benson
My Chemical Romance singles chronology
"Helena"
(2005)		 "Under Pressure"
(2005)		 "The Ghost of You"
(2005)
The Used singles chronology
"I Caught Fire"
(2005)		 "Under Pressure"
(2005)		 "The Bird and the Worm"
(2007)

The song was covered in 2005 by American alternative rock bands the Used and My Chemical Romance for tsunami relief. The cover was originally released as an Internet download track but has subsequently been featured as a bonus track on the 2005 re-release of the Used's second studio album In Love and Death, and received wide airplay in 2005.

On the Billboard charts, the single reached number 28 on Modern Rock chart and number 41 on the Hot 100.[73]

Chart (2005) Peak
position
US Billboard Hot Modern Rock Tracks 28
US Billboard Pop 100 28
US Billboard Hot 100 41

Controversy

Controversy arose when Vanilla Ice sampled the bassline for his 1990 single "Ice Ice Baby". Initially he denied the accusation and then said he had modified it[74] but did not originally pay songwriting credit or royalties to Queen and Bowie.[75][76] A lawsuit resulted in Bowie and all members of Queen receiving songwriting credit for the sample. Vanilla Ice later claimed that he purchased the publishing rights to "Under Pressure".[77][78] Vanilla Ice said buying the song made more financial sense than paying out royalties.[77]

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