David Bowie & Annie Lennox " Under pressure"

[bananas]

cross-posted as requested by a new DUer StanD_by_You.
This is a very powerful and emotional song,
and I know many of us have felt the emotive power of these artists.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x10795

[StanD_by_You]

1. bananas, you are my first and best friend here.

thanks for doing this for me, and a merry christmas to you, and love and joy and peace and everything you need and also for all those you know and don't know.

[MnFats]

2. thanks!

Annie and Bowie....what a great idea...

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. Notice who they've got backing them up?

Queen.

What I want to know is how come Annie Lenox doesn't age? Not fair.

Bowie get the damn cigarette out of your hand. Didn't he just have heart surgery?

[StanD_by_You]

4. this vid would be a time ago.

Queen is backing them? I didn't know that. cool.

[Guaranteed]

8. It's a tribute to Freddie that even Lennox and Bowie

seem to have a little trouble with the vocals he pulled off....

[StanD_by_You]

10. I love both versions.

but of course Freddie rules it all.
what a great band. o man.

[StanD_by_You]

5. another not so Christmas song that could be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtAbN0lJ4jg
sarah mclaughlin Silence.

she did this one on an album with Dilerium, Vancouver group, which reminds me of Enigma

[Guaranteed]

6. Is this THE "Under Pressure," by Queen?

I'll have a look.

[Guaranteed]

7. WHOO! Yeah. Amazing song. nt

[StanD_by_You]

9. here's the Queen version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM9ixcGKqe4

goosebumples

[Kindigger]

11. Oh man

:cry:

[Az]

12. Old old old old school Bowie with Bing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKTHvW2JcAA

[StanD_by_You]

13. thank you, I've never seen that. beautiful.

[Az]

14. Bowie was part of my entry into music

I remember watching that when it was originally broadcast. Bing Crosby's xmas special was simply what you watched back in the day. When he had Bowie on it was a bit earth shattering. There was no one as conventional as Bing and no one as out there as Bowie at the time. It was the meeting of the worlds.

[StanD_by_You]

15. I'd give everything to do it all over again for music.

My small partakings and nontalentness gave me the best rush ever. I can't describe it other than being part of a big heartbeat. African drums told me so.