-By Warner Todd Huston
If you are a fan of Queen’s Freddie Mercury and/or David Bowie, the isolated vocal track from Queen’s hit song “Under Pressure” is pretty amazing.
Isolated vocals are not always pretty. Linda McCartney singing “Hey Jude” is one of the worst examples, but “>David Lee Roth doing “Running With the Devil” isn’t much better.
But the isolated vocals from “Under Pressure” reveals two singers at the top of their game and on target vocally.
Over at OpenCulture.com Mike Springer has a bit of interesting history on the song and how it came about as a collaboration with Queen and Bowie.
Bowie was in the same studios recording his soundtrack for the remake of the movie “Cat People” and suggested to Mercury that he and they do a song together for the album Queen was recording (their 10th album “Hot Space”).
Apparently Bowie got way into the idea and not only cajoled the band into writing the song but became the ramrod as they recorded it and mixed it. Turns out is was more a Bowie song than a Queen song.
Anyway, it is a great song and the isolated track sounds just as good as the song does in its full mix.
Speaking of the full mix, here is the song as released in all its glory…
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing news, opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that wrote articles on U.S. history for several American history magazines. Huston is a featured writer for Andrew Breitbart’s Breitbart News, and he appears on such sites as RightWingNews.com, CanadaFreePress.com, Wizbang.com, and many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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