So sorry about the yucky symbols. I copied and pasted it into Word first. I don’t know how that would have helped.
Anyway, I don’t think singers do this kind of riffing anymore. Do they?
And it ultimately led to the career of one Vanilla Ice.
Thanks for posting
Saw this yesterday and was amazed. True talent.
Never heard that before, nice. In 1977, Bowie teamed up with Bing Crosby on a Christmas special for a few songs, Little Drummer Boy was done very well. I remember watching it back then.
I think it’s incredible how perfectly they establish the melody of the song with only their voices. Their voices are the only instruments.
Magnificent, and very illustrative of why music back then is infinitely better than whatever it is that is done today.
Talented and tragic. We would never have been drinking buddies but I admire their talent.
My wife is one of Bowie’s biggest fans in Germany and took his unexpected passing very hard.
Every time I tried to talk to her early yesterday she would burst out crying.
I’d enter the room and say: It is a good thing that Davide Bowie died...
Then she would start crying not allowing me to finish...
because he was very ill from six recent heart attacks and now his God given life is complete.
After a few times I just stopped trying.
I have to give you a kiss. That was one of the best things I’ve ever heard.
I revere both of those voices. Unbelievable. I didn’t just get goosebumps, my arm hairs all just fell OFF.
The problem with a lot of these “superstar” duets is that the songs just aren’t very good.
The music in “Under Pressure” is uninteresting and formulaic. The lyrics are something Barry Manilow might have come up with on a bad hair day.
Think of the other duets: “Ebony and Ivory”, “State of Shock”, “The Girl is Mine”. Heck, the best of the lot might be “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” (Elton John/Kiki Dee) and Kiki wasn’t a superstar. Yes, it’s kitsch, but it is a well executed pop ditty with no pretensions of being more.
“Under Pressure” had those pretensions.
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Under Pressure is one of the worst songs ever! And I am a big fan of both Bowie and Queen. IMHO, of course.