Weekend Wildcard - Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie

This Weekend's Wildcard is in honor of two legends who are no longer with us. This is Under Pressure by Queen and David Bowie. They released it as a single in 1981 and was later included on Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. Sadly, Freedie Mercury died of AIDS in 1991 at the young age of 45. And as everyone knows, Bowie passed away this past Sunday from Cancer.

This is not the official video for the song. Someone mashed up the song with clips from live performances at Wembley Stadium.

The famous baseline was sampled by Vanilla Ice who used it in his hit single Ice Ice Baby. He initially did not give writing credits to Queen and Bowie. What's funny is Bowie and the members of  Queen have different accounts on who came up with the bass line. I think bassist John Deacon came up with it but then he forgot it. Then later the guys helped him remember it and Brian May said that Bowie changed it a little bit during this time.

Why can't we give love that one more chance?
Why can't we give love, give love, give love...

'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And love dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure