One fact not mentioned in the film but still an important part of Queen's history is that Freddie Mercury and David Bowie had known each other since about 1968 or '69. Mercury was of course a student at Ealing Art College in the mid-to-late 1960s and David Bowie was a struggling musician. Mercury had played a few college gigs as an amateur musician and had worked on the same circuit at about the same time as Bowie so they got to know each other (Bowie had actually played a gig at Ealing Art College in 1968). Freddie and drummer Roger Taylor also ran a second-hand clothes stall in Kensington market around that time so Bowie would occasionally visit and they would help him out if he wanted something in particular. Bowie's career properly took off two or three years before Queen's did but in the summer of 1981, both Queen and Bowie happened to bump into each other in an EMI recording studio cafeteria in Germany whilst working on separate projects and started talking. Both the band and Bowie thought it would be fun to collaborate on a song and they quickly wrote 'Under Pressure' during their half-hour tea break. Bowie then went into the studio with Freddie, quickly recorded his lines in just a couple of takes and then went back into his own studio and the Queen members finished off laying down the rest of the instrumental parts of the song. The song was released as a single in the autumn of that year and went to No 1 in many countries. The song does appear briefly in the film, appropriately during Freddie's stay in Germany. It is thought by many Queen and Bowie fans to be Bowie's way of thanking the band for helping him during the lean times at the very beginning of his career.
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