It’s arguably the greatest duet ever recorded and well it almost didn’t happen. Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie. So First of all the iconic bass riff that galvanized the song was forgotten after the musicians took a dinner break… Then David Bowie almost blocked it from release because he was unhappy with it. the unorthodox structure of the duet came from every member of Queen including Freddie Mercury and David Bowie getting in separate vocal booths and singing improv without hearing what each other was singing… In the end, it fit like a glove… Then it wasn’t even a hit in America until the famous bass riff was Stolen by rapper Vanilla Ice in his song Ice, Ice Baby a decade after it was released reminding everyone of its sonic brilliance. The story behind this one is too good to be true. Yet it is. Next on Professor of Rock.

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In the summer of 1981... two rock titans clashed in a recording studio tucked away at the foot of the Swiss Alps to create extemporaneous magic. The truly unbelievable story of “Under Pressure” by Queen with David Bowie NEXT on Professor of Rock.

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It’s time for another edition of #1 in our Hearts where we go behind a song that was so phenomenal, that it should’ve been a #1 hit but for reasons we talk about in this commentary, it came up short.

Whenever you have two legends come together for a song or two can be life-changing. George Micheal and Aretha Franklin on the #1 hit I Knew You Waiting for Me, Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson with the #1 hit Say Say Say, Tom Petty, and Stevie Nicks on their top 5 hit Stop Draggin My Heart Around just to name a few. When fabulous Freddie Mercury of Queen and the thin white duke David Bowie recorded Under Pressure together, it was more than life-changing. It was or rather is one of the greatest songs ever put to tape. It’s one of those no-brainer number-one hits. But guess what? In America, it barely scraped the top 30. and some people know the song that sampled it better than the original. Let’s get into it.

“Under Pressure” by Queen with David Bowie…..If you don’t recall the song by its title, you will definitely say “Oh yeah” when you hear the tune’s famous melodic pluck. The story of how this irresistible riff and the complete track was invented, is about as amusing & bizarre as they come. So apparently There was no plan, no lyric sheet, no arrangement, no structure of any kind on the wondrous night it was recorded in July of 1981. The whole thing happened, unexpectedly, on a substance-induced evening in Montreux Switzerland, a sleepy resort town on the shoreline of Lake Geneva, at the base of the Swiss Alps. I will set the stage for us...

The 4 members of Queen were in Montreux working on material for a new album. They LOVED everything about Montreux, so much so, they bought Mountain Recording Studios in Montreux in ’79 and made it t