



Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy // Queen
I can dim the lights, and sing you songs full of sad things.
Cool Cat, written by Freddie Mercury and John Deacon, was originally featured David Bowie on backing vocals and a few lines of spoken word to a rhythm during the middle eight. According to Mercury in a 1982 TV interview, Bowie was unhappy with the results and requested them to be removed days before its parent album was slated to be released.
Queen and David Bowie - Under pressure (vocals only)
YOU MUST HEAR THIS
If you think your blog doesn’t need this, you are wrong. Wrong like a wrong thing that is wrong.
Step 1: Put on headphones. Step 2: Turn this up. Step 3. AGAIN, LOUDER.
Seriously, my favorite Queen track AND my favorite Bowie track gets better for hearing it stripped down, all the better to appreciate the delicate dance between the power of the vocals and the finesse of the engineering as voices are compressed then opened back up.
Bonus points for being able to tease out Roger’s vocal contributions!
This really is a must-listen. PLAY IT AGAIN LOUDER.

Waterboys: Roger Taylor, Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, my edit of original via Roberta Bray-Enhus