I'd never seen grown men look so sad about the loss of another man not related to them until I saw interviews with the remainder of Queen post Freddie's death. Especially Brian, he always seemed the more sensitive soul of the band.
Indeed, what music could we have had if they had been with us a little longer...? On a technical note, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Ice_Baby says: Ice Ice Baby.... based on the bassline of "Under Pressure" by British rock band Queen and British singer David Bowie
Sir Brian May of Queen sued Vanilla Ice over this unauthorized use. At first, the defendant was publicly in denial over it, but is now admitting it was such an obvious rip-off. So please understand that it started here.
Actually, it was John Deacon’s bass line, they went to the pub after a session and when they came back, john had forgotten it but luckily for John, it was either Brian or Rodger that remembered it. I forget which one it was.
@@jonathanmaybury5698, agreed. But Brian stepped up on the band's behalf to press the suit. His was the face of the righteous indignation on the matter.
When rap artists starting sampling they just took it, never asked permission nor ever gave any credit to the artist they sampled from... none of them had. Vanilla Ice as one of the first rappers taken to court for copyright infringement over such things.
@@romanfedrich6967 Actually not - and this was the actually the first high profile case in such context. It came down to the question when one breaches copyright? Originally copyright laws encompassed things like the lyric and/or main melody - i.e. “My Sweet Lord” vs "He's So Fine" - prior copyright suits followed that precedent. This question came down to how much of a song's feel and tonalities comprise the expression of the idea (the song) - in the Vanilla Ice case it's apparent they sampled a bass-line for Ice Ice Baby and so the question was how much of that bass-line is integral of part of Under Pressure.
Vanilla Ice sampled the riff but he claimed it was "just a little different" (by one note) to avoid copyright infringement because he didn't credit Queen and David Bowie. He was sued and Queen/David Bowie were awarded the rights.
@@mcm0324 Vanilla Ice did not "buy" the rights to Under Pressure. He was forced to pay money because he was a thief and he got sued. The publishing rights to Under Pressure remain with Queen/David Bowie.
@@clintonsmith5163 correct and it pretty much ruined his career because of it as it should've. You can't go around stealing riffs from songs. That is called Plagiarism.
This song was written and recorded by Queen and David Bowie years before ‘Ice Ice Baby’! Vanilla Ice had to pay Queen for stealing that bass riff They have cleverly put two separate live performances together .Bowie only played this live at Freddie Mercury’s memorial gig .
@@basilebannister710 no it’s called THEFT. Sampling means you made an agreement with the original artist. Vanilla ice DIDN’T even TRY. That’s THEFT dumbass. And there’s NO GOOD artist who needs to steal another artists work. And to steal such an iconic song shows how unoriginal and stupid these people are. He literally tried to lie about it and claim it as original work. That’s why Queen were so angry about it. They got to just hear it on the radio with everyone else. With ZERO warning. V.I handled it so poorly that he literally had to pay everything that song made, and MORE,to Queen and the lawyers. Queen originally thought he was just a kid and didn’t understand the laws and how he 🤞SHOULD get samples, they just wanted him to say sorry I didn’t ask, I didn’t know I was supposed to and here’s your CREDITS. When he started pushing back and lying about it being an original work they were LIVID. They’re decent guy’s, they’re also not against allowing samples of their music. They just wanted it done CORRECTLY. V.I literally FOUGHT TO GET SUED. HE was the ONLY reason it went to court. Where he would OBVIOUSLY would lose. Maybe shut your mouth kid when you don’t have a CLUE what the FnCK you’re talking about. 🤫🤐 it’s not about the validity of sampling, which is the shitty low IQ artists only way of creating anything. That’s why it’s only really big in the lowest IQ genre of all. Rap. Because they can’t creat anything new and original. They just mimic everyone else.
After Freddie Mercury died, there was a Freddie tribute concert and at it David Bowie performed this same song live with Annie Lennox, the singer with the Eurythmics (of "Sweet Dreams are Made of This"), taking Freddie's place. It's great, really worth seeing.
This video was a concert that never happened. The Freddie part was without David, and the David scenes are at that tribute concert you are describing. Someone's editing cleverly stitched the two together (Annie was edited out as well). As far as I know, they never performed this together live (or at least filmed).
@@scottwhitlock9201 the Freddie part is at Wembley Stadium (yes, I know I probably misspelled that. Please, forgive me.) in 1986, Live Aid was in 1985.
@@goldmustang5818 You spelled it perfectly, it was the "Magic" tour. Also they never performed this song at Live Aid, although as David Bowie was there also....I wish they had
"Do you think QUEEN would sample, Ice ice baby?!?" Thank you for that, Amber. BEST laugh I have had in a good while. SOOOOOO perfectly timed. Hope everyone is keeping safe
Indeed! I tried to like rap music, I really did, but what got under my skin was pinching riffs and melodies and passing them off as "sampling". A younger person once said that she liked "Gangsta's Paradise" particularly the chorus part. I told her that whole chorus was pinched from Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise". Why aren't these artists writing their own riffs and melodies?
@@tonybennett4159 I don't have an issue with people sampling the great hits. They're great hits for a reason. What I take issue with is the ones who won't admit they did this.
@@andrewmoss3681 I agree, but it seems to me to show a lack of ambition in composing their own catchy hooks. In most cases, even though the rappers acknowledge their sources, those listening to their output don't bother about that, and presume that everything is original material.
Fun Fact: There is no actual footage of Freddie & David performing this song on stage together. What you watched was a good edit of different performances.
The "long microphone " was due to his first stage performance when he tried to get the mic out the holder & it broke and he was left holding a 3/4 length of the mic & stand. He decided to use it as a kind of trademark and become well known for it.xx❤
My soul cringed when Jordan said, "This is ice ice baby" Thank goodness Amber saved it! 😂 I love this song so much, what a duo! Bowey's rich alto slides so smoothly under Mercury's ridiculous range! Steven Tyler of Aerosmith also favors his mic in the top half of the mic stand. Have you guys reacted to Aerosmith yet?
@@ThatLynnGirl Freddie Mercury was a high tenor with a range of alto up to low soprano. Is it super common for men to sing alto? No. But there are plenty of men that can.
That ‘stick’ on his microphone is actually the top half of a standard microphone stand. If you watch the biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” (a MUST SEE if you’re truly now Queen fans), there’s a scene where at one of their early gigs, Freddie accidentally breaks the mic stand in half and just continues the gig with just the top half. And the rest was history…
they didn't mention Ibex in the film,the band he was in during the summer 69 it wasn't secured properly so came away from the base and he decided to keep it as a gimmick so he was using it before they formed Queen
The 1980s had STARS! REAL stars! Big time no autotune top of the line STARS! The likes of Freddie and Bowie will not walk this Earth again. They were beyond special.
And the interesting thing is that he'd never actually stopped being himself. No matter where he'd gone, he was the same unmistakable artist. The second you'd heard his structures, his production, or his voice, you knew it was him, if you had any idea what a certain facet of him was like. If you knew Ziggy, you'd recognize Ziggy. If you knew 1.Outside Bowie, you'd recognize 1.Outside Bowie. If you'd heard Brixton-composer David Bowie, you'd recognize something from David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World, or Hunky Dory. If you'd heard crooner Bowie, everything on Heathen through Blackstar could only be him. Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Station to Station, Low, Lodger, Let's Dance, Labyrinth. That's all David Bowie, and it's all cohesive, while standing out in completely spontaneous ways. He wasn't anyone to fully settle for the same things, as he'd found his inspirations one-by-one. That's why he's one of the greatest legends to have ever lived!!! 😄😌
And to answer the question raised in the video above: Yes, Freddie is most likely the only one to use the top bar of a microphone stand this way, as it serves no practical purpose. It became a trademark of his. BTW, if your source on how he started it is from the Bohemian Rhapsody movie, I wouldn't be so sure... ;)
It probably didn't break off, as it's just a twist connect to the lower portion of the stand, to the base...but no matter. Also...Robert Plant used this mike stand quite often as well.
Every time I watch a reactor or reactors listen to Queen, someone says "Fun Fact: Brian May, Queen's guitarist, is actually an Astrophysicist". Actually he's not, his career is and what he does, a musician. He got a Bachelors and PhD in Astronomy, but good as he would have been as a pro Astronomer, I'm glad for our sakes he didn't take that career path!
@@jonathangeraldrobinson720 He'd started on his PhD and completed it after a 36 year gap. Normally that wouldn't be allowed - even for a celebrity like Brian! - because science and astronomy research moves on so fast in even a few years. But because his original PhD work (1971) was so obscure, hardly anyone had looked at the subject since! The faculty said go away and work on it for a year, which he did, and sure enough, is now Dr.May!
Vanilla Ice used that riff from THIS SONG. If I remember correctly, Brian May from Queen demanded that Vanilla Ice acknowledge that he got that riff from them or else Vanilla Ice was gonna be sued, I COULD BE VERY WRONG ON THIS. Queen and David Bowie wrote the entire song together, lyrics and music.
@@normanleroy1874 - I always remember him (in an interview or press conference) doing both versions, one after the other, as if we were going to say, "Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. They're totally different!"
Yes it is I remember hearing it when I was in highschool when it was fresh .an I instantly loved that song .That song is perfect and one of my favorites by Queen W/David Bowie
Freddie and David Bowie never sang this on stage together so whomever edited it was excellent!!! Vanilla Ice straight stole this and he was sued and lost. Queen and David Bowie never would have allowed it. I hope all that are reading this I hope that you have a wonderful and blessed day and please be safe!!! 🙂🙂 🤗🤗 🐧🐧
They mixed footage of Queen from LiveAid 1985 with David Bowie at the Freddie Mercury tribute in early 1992 when he performed the song with Annie Lennox. Both recorded at Wembly Stadium in London.
Freddie has been unanimously voted as the greatest front man of any band. Ever. Not only from the general public, but his peers as well. And no one deserves it more. He was the uiltimate showman, but had the vocals to back it up. There will never be another like him.
I usually dislike using 'Never' in descriptions because of the frailty of absolutes. However, in this case I think you are right. Freddie Mercury had charisma and talent that was off the charts. The original one off if I have ever seen one.
Five octave range when they were booking singers for Freddie's tribute concert they had to change the key to most songs because no one could match the pitch
Freddie Mercury was incredibly shy and a little introverted until he got on stage, than he transformed into quite possibly the best entertainer of all time. absolute legend
It's not "Ice Ice Baby" Its "Under Pressure". I think a good 80 per cent of music nowadays, always pinches something, maybe a line or a riff from something a lot lot older. & better. 😉🎤💙💝🎶🇬🇧
You HAVE to listen to "Barcelona", it is absolutely mindblowing and it shows Freddie could sing alongside with the most talented opera singers. It is sooo beautiful it makes you cry! Choose the live version at Barcelona. Love from Portugal!
I have begged them to do Barcelona ! I have begged all the reactor channels to do it. It is one of my favorite pieces of music. Do it !!!! Do it !!!! You won't regret it !
I'm afraid that "Under Pressure" came before Ice, Ice Baby...Vanilla Ice sampled Queen's song written by the White Duke(David Bowie). And it's Bowie (like bow and arrow)...not Boo-ee.
Vanilla Ice took the bass line and had to pay for sampling it without permission. So you’re right, but it’s Queen and specifically John Deacon’s bass line.
Such intense lyrics that make me tear up. "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 chance, this is our last dance, this is ourselves, under pressure"
You both need to watch Queen's Live Aid performance!! Over 20 minutes of sheer performance perfection...July 13, 1985, Wembly Stadium. Before Queen took the stage, everyone was kinda phoning their performances in...after Queen, everyone was scared to take the stage because they knew they would NOT measure up to the standard Freddie, John, Brian and Roger set! You will truly see the power Freddie had over an audience.
Looking up information about it, all responses were very positive. It was said to be the number one best live performance of all time. People will have their own opinions of course, they all have their own favorites. The event organizers asked Freddie to sing a special song in the Live Aid finale, "Is This The World We Created?", which was incredible, and right on target for the purpose of the fund raiser. I bought the dvd for "Queen Rock Montreal" just to get the recording of Queen's performance at Live Aid included with it.
If you do react to the live aid performance (which you should), react to the video which contains the extra song where they came back on stage a couple of hours later to perform that single song.
This song came about from a from an evening in the Swiss Alps with a lot of wine & cocaine! David found out Queen was nearby at their recording studio & called them up to visit. They were sitting around playing other people's songs when David said "let's just write one". That famous baseline came first which they almost forgot how it went after they went to eat. Freddie & David recorded without hearing the other to see how they each interpreted the song, I believe - thus the two very distinct styles. Freddie added his scatting - David's more serious tone, etc. It was two icons doing what they do best. Production was a hot mess because that's where being two total Divas came out. Each wanted control over the songs production & final sound. Each were used to getting their way. As you can see they worked it out. Iconic song written in just one night. Incredible.
In one of his early shows, the mike stand broke so he had to carry the entire thing. He was so creative with using it, and everyone reacted to it so well, that he kept it up and it became a trademark.
they didn't mention Ibex in the film,the band he was in during the summer 69 it wasn't secured properly so came away from the base and he decided to keep it as a gimmick so he was using it before they formed Queen
Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe singing Barcelona Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli singing Time to say goodbye Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush singing Don't give up
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss singing Led Zeppelin's Black Dog (CMT Crossroads) David Bowie and Annie Lennox singing Under Pressure David Bowie and Trent Reznor singing I'm Afraid of Americans
LOL, Amber, thank you for giving me a good laugh over your statement about Queen sampling someone else!! I have a lot of groups that I like but Queen is over in another pocket by themselves refusing to be stereotyped into one genre. So ahead of their time and relevant today.
Oh. Live Aid. When you have EVERYONE ALL OVER THE WORLD doing the hand clap thing to Radio GaGa, you are truly the Queen of the world. As the ERB goes "When I rock the UK, South America gets horny".
Under Pressure is one of the few songs that (imo) I would say is PERFECTION. FYI.... Queen and Bowie never preformed this song together. The video, which is a masterpiece, is made up of clips from LiveAid, and (when Bowie is in the green jacket) from the Freddie Mercury tribute, a few months after he passed away. Whoever did the video is wonderful, with the way he spliced the two together.
Give this a listen. JUST the vocals of Mercury & Bowie, singing Under Pressure, no instruments, except their voices... ruclips.net/video/uMQb9LCNGxs/видео.html
David Bowie has been a huge attraction to me ever since I saw him in the Labyrinth growing up. He has this natural charisma and charm, he could have been talking about a lawn mower and I would be enamored.
You should watch Jim Hensen’s Labyrinth if you haven’t seen it! David Bowie does quite a few songs in that while looking iconic and it’s a great movie to watch with the kids :)
I’m old enough to have seen it at the movie theater in high school! I had NO PROBLEM watching Bowie being evil and sexy in those tights on the big screen! ❤️
@S Ragsdale David was also in "The Hunger" with Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, & Cliff De Young. It was based on a Whitley Strieber novel of the same name.
Oh and a note. When this song was first played live they were in 2 different countries. Queen was at Wembley Stadium and David Bowie was in Paris. This song was done by Queen and Bowie before Ice Ice Baby. They built off of John Deacon's bass line. They broke for lunch and when they came back he had forgotten how it went. Roger remembered it and the rest was history.
This song is actually so incredibly deep if one pays attention to the lyrics… it’s just so darn easy tho to get lost in the incredible vocals & catchy beat! I’m ashamed to say it was years before I caught on… Like Elvis’ In The Ghetto- this song feels as relevant today as when it was recorded decades ago, if not more so. A mark IMHO of a truly great song and pure poetry set to music.
Yes. A lot of people miss the lyrics of songs, which I've also noticed when watching many reaction videos. Sure, you are drawn into the rhythm and melody but it's important to listen to the lyrics, it's a part of a song after all.
I confess for years I thought it petty how Queen handled Ice… until I understood the depth of the original song. And don’t hate lol- but I’m glad Mendez covered the song so younger people can & do clearly hear the lyrics! Agree w you 💯.
Need to react to some James Taylor “ You’ve got a friend”, “Fire and rain”, “Sweet baby James” “ Carolina on my mind”, “Something in the way she moves” oh and for something completely different from all of those songs that’s more bluesy called “Steamroller” and so many many more!!! I’ve been hoping and praying someone would react to James Taylor and I really haven’t seen anything yet you could be the first to do James Taylor!!
SOOO much to unpack here. Strap in: This song is a collaboration that sprung from an idea called "People on Streets" in 1981. A few drinks and a few hours later, this song was born. The half mic stand bit was a trademark of Freddie Mercury's performances. It started when his mic stand broke mid-show early on in his career, and he stuck with it. In this video, all Freddie Mercury footage was from Queen's concert at Wembley Stadium, London, in 1986. All David Bowie footage is from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, also at Wembley, in 1992 (Freddie Mercury died of AIDS in November 1991). The shots of the two of them together are the result of clever editing, as David Bowie never performed this song live with Freddie Mercury. And now, the elephant in the room - Vanilla Ice's 1990 hit "Ice Ice Baby" sampled "Under Pressure" without giving proper credit where it was due. He even went so far as to claim it was an original beat because it had an "extra note" in the bass line. Queen's record label filed a lawsuit and won. It was this lawsuit which made artists give credit for any music that was sampled into a new recording.
When you guys finally react to the 20 min video of Queen at Live Aid I will be so happy! It’s a day full of the most famous artists and bands in the world raising money for Africa, and the band that stood out above all was Queen. You will love it!!
this old lady loves you two ! Your family is adorable! The music I grew up and I listened too are mostly what you’re listening to now. That makes me so happy ! I miss Freddie and David so much. So glad younger generations at least will check it out . Makes me so happy.
The story for half a mic stand goes like this: in the early days of Queen, 72/73, during a live performance, Freddie's mic stand snapped in half at the "twist" where you raise and lover it. The top half came right out of the bottom half. Freddie, the true performer that he was, continued the show because "The Show Must Go On". Well every subsequent show after that for the rest of Queen's performances, he used the half a mic stand. It became like his scepter.
This song started out as just a jamming session between Queen and Bowie, and progressed to the song you here today. And the story about Freddie’s microphone stand is that when they were performing in the early days, during a gig Freddie’s microphone stand broke early during the performance and he was forced to perform the rest of the set with just the top stand, but found it enabled him to move more freely about the stage (which as we all know was his brilliant style) so he incorporated it more permanently into the act and subsequently the videos
There's actually a wee story behind the mic that Freddie used. When he first appeared with Brian May and Roger Taylor before they had even changed the band's name to Queen Freddie Mercury had a problem with the microphone and it's stand on one particular occasion and he ended up breaking the stand. So the the sort of half stand became associated with Freddie Mercury over the years.
Yes, this is the opening that Robert Van Winkle (Vanilla Ice) used for "Ice Ice Baby," and yes, he did get sued for it. At the time I suggested this one, I was curious whether you guys would recognize that bass track; you did not disappoint. Also, the idea of Jordan dressing up as Freddie Mercury is awesome! We need videos of Jordan Mercury and Amber Joplin! My recommendation this time is another great Queen song that has a really fun music video: "I Want to Break Free." Obviously, you'll have to react to the official music video of that one. I've been wanting to see you react to that one for a while!
It has been said, that when they went to record this, Freddie and David were trying to out do the other. I would have liked to be a fly on the wall that day. They never did this live, who ever edited this together did a awesome job ‼️
If u search for it you can find the recordings of just Freddie and David’s voices from that session. A friend of mine found it one day and we listened it to and it’s amazing. Just those 2 voices now music just those 2. Also this is a Bowie song featuring Queen just FYI it’s not technically a Queen song.
Yup. They both decided not to listen to the other. Freddie went first and then Bowie. Queen's manager says that Freddie couldn't believe how well Bowie's section turned out. Little did he know Bowie cheated - he was listening by the door.
OMG Freddy Mercury and David Bowie two of the greatest, I get chills from them! Vanilla Ice got in trouble for using the sound, he tried to explain it was different sound! lol
I start getting ready to tear up when I think about Freddie and David being gone.... but then their music just fills me full of love and warmth and good vibes, and I realize "the music goes on and on and on and on..." a quote from a Pet Shop Boys song, It's Alright, from the album Introspective. So great to see both of you enjoying and appreciating all this great music.
This is definitely one of my favorites of all time, the message behind it was so strong. These men were trying to change the world with this message. They dared us to redefine how we love ourselves and each other.
Freddie Mercury was one of the most iconic front man that ever graced a stage and David Bowie is right there with him y'all really should check out Queen at Live Aid their whole performance is epic you get to see Freddie hold that crowd right in the palm of his hand
This video combined two performances - Queen playing the song and David Bowie playing with the rest of Queen and Annie Lennox who sings Freddie's part at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992 after he passed. You should watch the Tribute Concert performance because Annie kills it and it's so emotional.
This is such a good video, whoever made it. It's two different performances using footage from Queen with both Freddie and Bowie to sync up into one video. It works really well.
so it is pronounced BOW (as in bow & arrow) - ee. and this video was edited from 2 different performances, as david and freddie never performed this song together. LOVE THIS SONG ❤
Two of the greatest singers that ever lived. Both Freddie and David were perfection! Sadly never got to see Queen live. Did get to see Bowie live 3 times and he was excellent!!!!
When Freddie says "why don't we give our love one more chance?" love had a special meaning that day. Millions of people were globally united to fight poverty and starvation.
Queen, Freddy Mercury and David Bowie are such iconic artists, they were amazing. Eventhough they are both dead now 😢they still are amazing, their music lives on.
As you said: Definitely one of the most perfect and iconic duos or duets in pop/rock history! It's so sad that the both of them still have passed away. R.I.P. David and Freddie 🕯
I love how much you love these artists. I was lucky enough to grow up listening to them in the UK and to see them live. I was blessed. The world was blessed with their wonderful music and I am so happy that you are now enjoying it too :)
When Jordan started singing Ice Ice Baby and Amber said “ don’t ruin this with that”. Truer words were never spoken!!
My thoughts the first time I heard Vanilla Ice rip it off.
"Stop! Put my shoe back on..."
@@O_Towne_Bear I remember that scene from the show in Living Color
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Common, Ice used it cleverly.
RIP Freddie and David the world is a little darker without them.
I'd never seen grown men look so sad about the loss of another man not related to them until I saw interviews with the remainder of Queen post Freddie's death.
Especially Brian, he always seemed the more sensitive soul of the band.
Indeed, what music could we have had if they had been with us a little longer...?
On a technical note, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_Ice_Baby says:
Ice Ice Baby.... based on the bassline of "Under Pressure" by British rock band Queen and British singer David Bowie
or brighter... for having had them here.
Only a little?
More than a little, but yeah, what you said.
Bowie's controlled intensity is the perfect balance for Freddie's operatic theatrics. This is a masterclass of song writing.
Those two wrote the song together, literally. They just never got around to singing it together.
-#cheers-- !-
summed it up perfectly!
@@ChristobanistanExcept in the Studio.
The theatrics is computer editing.
Sir Brian May of Queen sued Vanilla Ice over this unauthorized use. At first, the defendant was publicly in denial over it, but is now admitting it was such an obvious rip-off. So please understand that it started here.
Actually, it was John Deacon’s bass line, they went to the pub after a session and when they came back, john had forgotten it but luckily for John, it was either Brian or Rodger that remembered it. I forget which one it was.
@@jonathanmaybury5698, agreed. But Brian stepped up on the band's behalf to press the suit. His was the face of the righteous indignation on the matter.
When rap artists starting sampling they just took it, never asked permission nor ever gave any credit to the artist they sampled from... none of them had. Vanilla Ice as one of the first rappers taken to court for copyright infringement over such things.
@@tommack9395 "artists" - that's a bit of a stretch.
@@romanfedrich6967 Actually not - and this was the actually the first high profile case in such context. It came down to the question when one breaches copyright? Originally copyright laws encompassed things like the lyric and/or main melody - i.e. “My Sweet Lord” vs "He's So Fine" - prior copyright suits followed that precedent. This question came down to how much of a song's feel and tonalities comprise the expression of the idea (the song) - in the Vanilla Ice case it's apparent they sampled a bass-line for Ice Ice Baby and so the question was how much of that bass-line is integral of part of Under Pressure.
Vanilla Ice sampled the riff but he claimed it was "just a little different" (by one note) to avoid copyright infringement because he didn't credit Queen and David Bowie. He was sued and Queen/David Bowie were awarded the rights.
I believe that Queen and David Bowie were given co-songwriting credit for Ice Ice Baby, rather than any "rights" but I could be wrong.
Vanilla Ice bought the rights to the song from Queen. It was cheaper.
@@mcm0324 He did not buy the rights to the song. He lied about that too.
@@mcm0324 Vanilla Ice did not "buy" the rights to Under Pressure. He was forced to pay money because he was a thief and he got sued. The publishing rights to Under Pressure remain with Queen/David Bowie.
@@clintonsmith5163 correct and it pretty much ruined his career because of it as it should've. You can't go around stealing riffs from songs. That is called Plagiarism.
No autotuning just spectacler voices. Two icons singing together. ❤
They never sung it together it was all edited in a studio
@@paulgregson1979They recorded it together. They just never performed the song together
Bowies footage is from when he sang at the queen tribute concert to freiddie after he died. in the concert he did it with annie lennox I belive
This song was written and recorded by Queen and David Bowie years before ‘Ice Ice Baby’! Vanilla Ice had to pay Queen for stealing that bass riff
They have cleverly put two separate live performances together .Bowie only played this live at Freddie Mercury’s memorial gig .
Its called sampling and it creates some amazing songs calm down
@@basilebannister710 no it’s called THEFT. Sampling means you made an agreement with the original artist. Vanilla ice DIDN’T even TRY. That’s THEFT dumbass. And there’s NO GOOD artist who needs to steal another artists work. And to steal such an iconic song shows how unoriginal and stupid these people are. He literally tried to lie about it and claim it as original work. That’s why Queen were so angry about it. They got to just hear it on the radio with everyone else. With ZERO warning. V.I handled it so poorly that he literally had to pay everything that song made, and MORE,to Queen and the lawyers. Queen originally thought he was just a kid and didn’t understand the laws and how he 🤞SHOULD get samples, they just wanted him to say sorry I didn’t ask, I didn’t know I was supposed to and here’s your CREDITS. When he started pushing back and lying about it being an original work they were LIVID. They’re decent guy’s, they’re also not against allowing samples of their music. They just wanted it done CORRECTLY. V.I literally FOUGHT TO GET SUED. HE was the ONLY reason it went to court. Where he would OBVIOUSLY would lose. Maybe shut your mouth kid when you don’t have a CLUE what the FnCK you’re talking about. 🤫🤐 it’s not about the validity of sampling, which is the shitty low IQ artists only way of creating anything. That’s why it’s only really big in the lowest IQ genre of all. Rap. Because they can’t creat anything new and original. They just mimic everyone else.
@@basilebannister710 Still robbed it without permission
they both did record in a studio, Ive listened Brain May talk about it x
@@dmxdex Vanilla Ice is now the sole rights owner of Under Pressure. He bought it to end the controversy.
No It’s NOT NOT NOT Ice Ice Baby! Don’t insult the original by saying that!!!
that was exactly my thought
Two legends that will never be topped!
After Freddie Mercury died, there was a Freddie tribute concert and at it David Bowie performed this same song live with Annie Lennox, the singer with the Eurythmics (of "Sweet Dreams are Made of This"), taking Freddie's place. It's great, really worth seeing.
This video was a concert that never happened. The Freddie part was without David, and the David scenes are at that tribute concert you are describing. Someone's editing cleverly stitched the two together (Annie was edited out as well). As far as I know, they never performed this together live (or at least filmed).
@@erickyoung8331 Yep, the Freddie part is Live Aid
@@scottwhitlock9201 the Freddie part is at Wembley Stadium (yes, I know I probably misspelled that. Please, forgive me.) in 1986, Live Aid was in 1985.
@@goldmustang5818 You spelled it perfectly, it was the "Magic" tour. Also they never performed this song at Live Aid, although as David Bowie was there also....I wish they had
@@mbsapp1 Yes!
"Do you think QUEEN would sample, Ice ice baby?!?" Thank you for that, Amber. BEST laugh I have had in a good while. SOOOOOO perfectly timed. Hope everyone is keeping safe
Indeed! I tried to like rap music, I really did, but what got under my skin was pinching riffs and melodies and passing them off as "sampling". A younger person once said that she liked "Gangsta's Paradise" particularly the chorus part. I told her that whole chorus was pinched from Stevie Wonder's "Pastime Paradise". Why aren't these artists writing their own riffs and melodies?
@@tonybennett4159 I don't have an issue with people sampling the great hits. They're great hits for a reason. What I take issue with is the ones who won't admit they did this.
@@andrewmoss3681 I agree, but it seems to me to show a lack of ambition in composing their own catchy hooks. In most cases, even though the rappers acknowledge their sources, those listening to their output don't bother about that, and presume that everything is original material.
@@tonybennett4159 very true. But then, how many classics have we listened to that we didn't know were covers? The joys of the ignorance of youth 🤭
@@andrewmoss3681 ie Black Betty
I've been obsessed with Queen since I was 13...and I'm 58 now. They will always be the best band to me....Freddie and Queen forever
Same age, and same point of view.
Word! Freddie and Queen forever.
Fun Fact: There is no actual footage of Freddie & David performing this song on stage together. What you watched was a good edit of different performances.
With the audio from the studio recording.
Yeah IDK if this is true but I heard they would argue about what lyrics to sing if they went live. So they went with the studio recording.
at 5:09 they are standing right next to each other, and you see the queen logo on the drums several times when David is shown.
@@maxpower7318 thats cause that was the concert in honor of freddie after his death
@@maxpower7318 You can see it, because David's footage is from the Freddie Mercury tribute concert 1992. On 5:09 is just good editing.
Don’t forget at Christmas time to do David Bowie and Bing Crosby “Little Drummer Boy”
love this channel but i also watch Seven Hunnid on RUclips alot cuhh
Yes, I want that too.
Yes!!!
Little drummer boy is one of my favorite Christmas Songs.. So beautiful!
My two favorite Christmas songs this and And so this is Christmas. war is over by John Lennon✌❤
The "long microphone " was due to his first stage performance when he tried to get the mic out the holder & it broke and he was left holding a 3/4 length of the mic & stand. He decided to use it as a kind of trademark and become well known for it.xx❤
Perfectly said! Many people don't know this.👍👑🌈💙
My soul cringed when Jordan said, "This is ice ice baby" Thank goodness Amber saved it! 😂 I love this song so much, what a duo! Bowey's rich alto slides so smoothly under Mercury's ridiculous range!
Steven Tyler of Aerosmith also favors his mic in the top half of the mic stand. Have you guys reacted to Aerosmith yet?
Men don’t sing alto. That’s a woman’s part.
@@ThatLynnGirl of course...you are correct... Baritone! 😂
@@ThatLynnGirl Freddie Mercury was a high tenor with a range of alto up to low soprano. Is it super common for men to sing alto? No. But there are plenty of men that can.
@@snoflake82 It is a range of notes. Men can "sing alto" parts but they are not called altos. He is a baritone or a tenor 2.
@@maryvallas772 Thank you; I came here to say that. Also, for a baritone, Bowie had such an incredible range.
That ‘stick’ on his microphone is actually the top half of a standard microphone stand.
If you watch the biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” (a MUST SEE if you’re truly now Queen fans), there’s a scene where at one of their early gigs, Freddie accidentally breaks the mic stand in half and just continues the gig with just the top half. And the rest was history…
Lol. Exactly. I love how that came about
Thank you for posting this, as it saved me from writing more or less the same thing.
they didn't mention Ibex in the film,the band he was in during the summer 69
it wasn't secured properly so came away from the base and he decided to keep it as a gimmick
so he was using it before they formed Queen
Even though it is that it could also be that Freddie is a Virgo ruled by mercury\hermes holding the caduceus staff in his left hand
@@bluebell3720 well…film makers have been known to take liberties with facts when writing scripts…right?
The 1980s had STARS! REAL stars! Big time no autotune top of the line STARS! The likes of Freddie and Bowie will not walk this Earth again. They were beyond special.
"This is our last dance" really hits home these days.. It rings true for humanity.
Why oh why didn’t we realize we had icons on our radio everyday? Lol Gen x will live forever 🎼💗😎
David Bowie reinvented himself many times over his long career. He was a writer, singer, actor and artist. He was truly incredible.
And the interesting thing is that he'd never actually stopped being himself. No matter where he'd gone, he was the same unmistakable artist. The second you'd heard his structures, his production, or his voice, you knew it was him, if you had any idea what a certain facet of him was like. If you knew Ziggy, you'd recognize Ziggy. If you knew 1.Outside Bowie, you'd recognize 1.Outside Bowie. If you'd heard Brixton-composer David Bowie, you'd recognize something from David Bowie, The Man Who Sold the World, or Hunky Dory. If you'd heard crooner Bowie, everything on Heathen through Blackstar could only be him. Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Station to Station, Low, Lodger, Let's Dance, Labyrinth. That's all David Bowie, and it's all cohesive, while standing out in completely spontaneous ways. He wasn't anyone to fully settle for the same things, as he'd found his inspirations one-by-one. That's why he's one of the greatest legends to have ever lived!!! 😄😌
@@chrismeadows4216 So well said!
That's why he was known as the Chameleon.
I loved the two albums he did in Tin Machine; sadly forgotten band
Remember Queen is the name of the band. Freddie Mercury is the lead singer, Roger Taylor on drums, Brian May guitar and John Deacon on bass
THIS! T
That kinda is driving me nuts
Bowies harmonizing on the background vocals is hauntingly beautiful
Yes, Vanilla Ice sampled this riff without permission from either Queen or David Bowie and got sued by both of them for copyright infringement
karlsmith2570: As it should have been !!!
Good
Freddie's "Stick" is simply the top part of his microphone stand that broke off during a performance, he thought it was cool and kept using it.
So he used it as a prop, what's wrong with that?
@@susanlane8803 No one said anything was wrong with it....
And to answer the question raised in the video above: Yes, Freddie is most likely the only one to use the top bar of a microphone stand this way, as it serves no practical purpose. It became a trademark of his.
BTW, if your source on how he started it is from the Bohemian Rhapsody movie, I wouldn't be so sure... ;)
It probably didn't break off, as it's just a twist connect to the lower portion of the stand, to the base...but no matter. Also...Robert Plant used this mike stand quite often as well.
@@paulhenderson8201 It was stated by Brian that the stand “snapped and broke”. I’ll try to find the article where he said this.
This performance is acclaimed as being one of the best duets of all time. Thanks for your reaction.
This song gets to me every time I hear it. It's such a master piece! Nothing but LOVE for this song❤❤❤❤❤
Fun Fact: Brian May, Queen's guitarist, is actually an Astrophysicist.
Yeah. He got his doctorate fairly recently if I'm not mistaken. And he built his own guitar.
Every time I watch a reactor or reactors listen to Queen, someone says "Fun Fact: Brian May, Queen's guitarist, is actually an Astrophysicist". Actually he's not, his career is and what he does, a musician. He got a Bachelors and PhD in Astronomy, but good as he would have been as a pro Astronomer, I'm glad for our sakes he didn't take that career path!
@@jonathangeraldrobinson720 He'd started on his PhD and completed it after a 36 year gap. Normally that wouldn't be allowed - even for a celebrity like Brian! - because science and astronomy research moves on so fast in even a few years. But because his original PhD work (1971) was so obscure, hardly anyone had looked at the subject since! The faculty said go away and work on it for a year, which he did, and sure enough, is now Dr.May!
fun fact: he's now Brian Did
Fact: 100% of Fun Facts are simply facts
Vanilla Ice used that riff from THIS SONG. If I remember correctly, Brian May from Queen demanded that Vanilla Ice acknowledge that he got that riff from them or else Vanilla Ice was gonna be sued, I COULD BE VERY WRONG ON THIS. Queen and David Bowie wrote the entire song together, lyrics and music.
Vanilla Ice tried to claim he hadn't stolen the bassline because he added another note to it 😂
@@normanleroy1874 That's right! He was so wrong,
You're very right.
@@normanleroy1874 - I always remember him (in an interview or press conference) doing both versions, one after the other, as if we were going to say, "Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. They're totally different!"
@@tanisdevelopment 😂 The stones that guy had!
And that line. “Why can’t we just give love…give love…give love. This is such an uplifting song for me. One of my all time favorites. ❤️
Yes it is I remember hearing it when I was in highschool when it was fresh .an I instantly loved that song .That song is perfect and one of my favorites by Queen W/David Bowie
@@alangary9893 agreed…pretty sure I was in high school when it came out also. Class of ‘86 👊
My favorite part 🥰Gives me goosebumps!🥰🥲
Freddie and David Bowie never sang this on stage together so whomever edited it was excellent!!! Vanilla Ice straight stole this and he was sued and lost. Queen and David Bowie never would have allowed it. I hope all that are reading this I hope that you have a wonderful and blessed day and please be safe!!! 🙂🙂 🤗🤗 🐧🐧
This is correct, great mix.
They sued and won five million dollars
Vanilla Ice added an extra beat to the riff and thought it would get bye the OBVIOUS sampling lawsuit. It clearly wasn't enough.
They mixed footage of Queen from LiveAid 1985 with David Bowie at the Freddie Mercury tribute in early 1992 when he performed the song with Annie Lennox. Both recorded at Wembly Stadium in London.
@jamesscully529 the footage of Queen isn't from Live Aid. Freddie wore a white tank top and jeans at Live Aid.
Freddie has been unanimously voted as the greatest front man of any band. Ever. Not only from the general public, but his peers as well. And no one deserves it more. He was the uiltimate showman, but had the vocals to back it up. There will never be another like him.
I usually dislike using 'Never' in descriptions because of the frailty of absolutes. However, in this case I think you are right. Freddie Mercury had charisma and talent that was off the charts. The original one off if I have ever seen one.
"King Mercury"
- Paul McCartney
Many people thinking something does not equate to being unanimous when there are others who disagree.
"There will never be another like him"...sad but probably true.
Five octave range when they were booking singers for Freddie's tribute concert they had to change the key to most songs because no one could match the pitch
"Don't ruin this with that" I don't think better words have ever been spoken
Freddie Mercury was incredibly shy and a little introverted until he got on stage, than he transformed into quite possibly the best entertainer of all time. absolute legend
You guys have never sounded more married than “Do you really think QUEEN sampled Ice Ice Baby?” 😂
That part had me laughing, too! 🤣
Thank you Amber for bringing some sense and logic into that exchange! LOL
I had to rewind and play that part again. Priceless. 😂
The fact that anyone could even ask the question about whether Queen 'sampled' Vanilla Ice, is borderline offensive! 😜
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I MISS THEM SO MUCH!! RIP to both of them. Hope you're still singing somewhere up there...in the greatest of jam sessions.
It's not "Ice Ice Baby" Its "Under Pressure".
I think a good 80 per cent of music nowadays, always pinches something, maybe a line or a riff from something a lot lot older. & better. 😉🎤💙💝🎶🇬🇧
Freddie Mercury is a freakin legend and mixing with David Bowie's singing is 100% a beautiful mix
What Freddie had couldn’t be taught, He just had IT!
and in spades
The match up of Queen and Bowie was inspired. Two of the all time greats performing a fantastic song.
You HAVE to listen to "Barcelona", it is absolutely mindblowing and it shows Freddie could sing alongside with the most talented opera singers. It is sooo beautiful it makes you cry! Choose the live version at Barcelona. Love from Portugal!
I have begged them to do Barcelona ! I have begged all the reactor channels to do it. It is one of my favorite pieces of music. Do it !!!! Do it !!!! You won't regret it !
I'm afraid that "Under Pressure" came before Ice, Ice Baby...Vanilla Ice sampled Queen's song written by the White Duke(David Bowie). And it's Bowie (like bow and arrow)...not Boo-ee.
Yes!! My favorite by Freddy, and so under appreciated
Raf Dad,true. Under pressure in 1981 or 1982, Vanilla Ice in 1990. And he kept denying that he sampled the song.
They absolutely need to do "Barcelona". Chill after chill listening to two of the greatest vocalists in two different genres ever made.
Both legends.....Freddie's voice just blows David away
Vanilla Ice took the bass line and had to pay for sampling it without permission. So you’re right, but it’s Queen and specifically John Deacon’s bass line.
IIRC Vanilla Ice tried to argue "that he had added 1 more beat to the bassline" ..😌
@@Sportsref13 😄
Such intense lyrics that make me tear up.
"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 chance, this is our last dance, this is ourselves, under pressure"
Every time
Lyrics I have on my festival caravan, the art work is dedicated to Musicians & their Lyrics that have inspired me, Bowie & Queen among them.
Roger Taylor wrote this...he plays it live in his solo shows.
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As I started reading those lyrics, it quickly turned into me singing the lyrics instead. This song is a masterpiece
Collab of Collabs. All rock gods!
You both need to watch Queen's Live Aid performance!! Over 20 minutes of sheer performance perfection...July 13, 1985, Wembly Stadium. Before Queen took the stage, everyone was kinda phoning their performances in...after Queen, everyone was scared to take the stage because they knew they would NOT measure up to the standard Freddie, John, Brian and Roger set! You will truly see the power Freddie had over an audience.
And yet Bowie performed after them and had the crowd in the palm of his hand.
Looking up information about it, all responses were very positive. It was said to be the number one best live performance of all time. People will have their own opinions of course, they all have their own favorites. The event organizers asked Freddie to sing a special song in the Live Aid finale, "Is This The World We Created?", which was incredible, and right on target for the purpose of the fund raiser. I bought the dvd for "Queen Rock Montreal" just to get the recording of Queen's performance at Live Aid included with it.
If you do react to the live aid performance (which you should), react to the video which contains the extra song where they came back on stage a couple of hours later to perform that single song.
This song came about from a from an evening in the Swiss Alps with a lot of wine & cocaine! David found out Queen was nearby at their recording studio & called them up to visit. They were sitting around playing other people's songs when David said "let's just write one". That famous baseline came first which they almost forgot how it went after they went to eat. Freddie & David recorded without hearing the other to see how they each interpreted the song, I believe - thus the two very distinct styles. Freddie added his scatting - David's more serious tone, etc. It was two icons doing what they do best. Production was a hot mess because that's where being two total Divas came out. Each wanted control over the songs production & final sound. Each were used to getting their way. As you can see they worked it out. Iconic song written in just one night. Incredible.
Thanks for sharing that !
@Jennifer Hurlburt Nicely crafted summation of the story here!
Wow, that's a lot of information I didn't know before. Thanks for the back story that I had no idea about back in my senior year of H.S.!
“Cocaine is a helluva drug.” - Rick James
Thank you for sharing! I'd end up writing a chapter of I tried to tell the story.
Queen is nothing short of modern day opera... Freddy was a complete musical genius...👍
David Bowie is the most incredible human to ever walk the face of this earth.
@Sharon Bee Really? One person's opinion and they are completely entitled to it. Yours is different and you're entitled to it.
This duo is fine but the one Bowie did with Mick Jagger - not so much.
@@richardmyers1506 The song was OK- the video was a little fruity....
Was , he has passed now ; our idols are gone but not forgotten. 😪
Absolutely agree!
In one of his early shows, the mike stand broke so he had to carry the entire thing. He was so creative with using it, and everyone reacted to it so well, that he kept it up and it became a trademark.
they didn't mention Ibex in the film,the band he was in during the summer 69
it wasn't secured properly so came away from the base and he decided to keep it as a gimmick
so he was using it before they formed Queen
Derp
@@bluebell3720 Yep. I had forgotten that tidbit - thanks.
This is always bitter sweet to listen to this song. We lost them too soon.
Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe singing Barcelona
Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli singing Time to say goodbye
Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush singing Don't give up
Absolutely yes to all of these suggestions. 👍
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss singing Led Zeppelin's Black Dog (CMT Crossroads)
David Bowie and Annie Lennox singing Under Pressure
David Bowie and Trent Reznor singing I'm Afraid of Americans
And not forgetting Mick Jagger and David Bowie singing Dancing in the Street.
One of my favorite songs! Yes it is pronounced Bow 🎁 - EE.
Since I first heard this song I've always thought this is the best EVER written Pop song!
It amazes me that after almost 40 years of listening to these two amazing artists singing this song I still get goosebumps EVERY SINGLE TIME!!!
LMFAO @ Amber saying: Do you really think Queen would sample Ice Ice Baby... This was hilarious :D
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Freddie left his fortune to his first love and bf
and his cats...a role model for sure
LOL, Amber, thank you for giving me a good laugh over your statement about Queen sampling someone else!! I have a lot of groups that I like but Queen is over in another pocket by themselves refusing to be stereotyped into one genre. So ahead of their time and relevant today.
Yes u are right Amber.... Vanilla Ice did get sued b/c he used the beginning of this song!
You need to do the full live aid performance by Queen.
THE single greatest live performance by any band ever.
Oh. Live Aid. When you have EVERYONE ALL OVER THE WORLD doing the hand clap thing to Radio GaGa, you are truly the Queen of the world. As the ERB goes "When I rock the UK, South America gets horny".
Under Pressure is one of the few songs that (imo) I would say is PERFECTION.
FYI.... Queen and Bowie never preformed this song together. The video, which is a masterpiece, is made up of clips from LiveAid, and (when Bowie is in the green jacket) from the Freddie Mercury tribute, a few months after he passed away. Whoever did the video is wonderful, with the way he spliced the two together.
The Freddie clips are from the A Kind Of Magic tour which was the year after Live Aid
Give this a listen. JUST the vocals of Mercury & Bowie, singing Under Pressure, no instruments, except their voices... ruclips.net/video/uMQb9LCNGxs/видео.html
David Bowie has been a huge attraction to me ever since I saw him in the Labyrinth growing up. He has this natural charisma and charm, he could have been talking about a lawn mower and I would be enamored.
I love tracks like Future Legend and Glass Spider, for that reason. His speaking voice was the end and beginning of life, in some ways.
They were not actually on stage together for this but did write the song together.
Two greats who will never be forgotten ♥️🙏✝️
"Don't ruin this with that" Thank you!
You should watch Jim Hensen’s Labyrinth if you haven’t seen it! David Bowie does quite a few songs in that while looking iconic and it’s a great movie to watch with the kids :)
That's a great movie
Somebody from the family already sent them the movie they just have to watch it yay one of my favorites
I’m old enough to have seen it at the movie theater in high school! I had NO PROBLEM watching Bowie being evil and sexy in those tights on the big screen! ❤️
Labyrinth is not for well functioning children. Please... be blessed .
@S Ragsdale David was also in "The Hunger" with Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, & Cliff De Young. It was based on a Whitley Strieber novel of the same name.
Oh and a note. When this song was first played live they were in 2 different countries. Queen was at Wembley Stadium and David Bowie was in Paris. This song was done by Queen and Bowie before Ice Ice Baby. They built off of John Deacon's bass line. They broke for lunch and when they came back he had forgotten how it went. Roger remembered it and the rest was history.
This song is actually so incredibly deep if one pays attention to the lyrics… it’s just so darn easy tho to get lost in the incredible vocals & catchy beat! I’m ashamed to say it was years before I caught on…
Like Elvis’ In The Ghetto- this song feels as relevant today as when it was recorded decades ago, if not more so. A mark IMHO of a truly great song and pure poetry set to music.
Yes. A lot of people miss the lyrics of songs, which I've also noticed when watching many reaction videos. Sure, you are drawn into the rhythm and melody but it's important to listen to the lyrics, it's a part of a song after all.
I confess for years I thought it petty how Queen handled Ice… until I understood the depth of the original song. And don’t hate lol- but I’m glad Mendez covered the song so younger people can & do clearly hear the lyrics!
Agree w you 💯.
You need to do a lot more Queen and David Bowie songs. You're still missing out on a huge number of truly classic songs from both.
Freddie Mercury and David Bowie are gigantic legends that people will listen to even in the future❤😊
Need to react to some James Taylor “ You’ve got a friend”, “Fire and rain”, “Sweet baby James” “ Carolina on my mind”, “Something in the way she moves” oh and for something completely different from all of those songs that’s more bluesy called “Steamroller” and so many many more!!! I’ve been hoping and praying someone would react to James Taylor and I really haven’t seen anything yet you could be the first to do James Taylor!!
Yes, since you all loved Carly Simon, you'll also love James Taylor who was once married to Carly "Fire and Rain" is my favorite song of his.
Also Carole King
And James Taylor's favorite voice, Bonnie Raitt, again, since you loved her!
SOOO much to unpack here. Strap in:
This song is a collaboration that sprung from an idea called "People on Streets" in 1981. A few drinks and a few hours later, this song was born.
The half mic stand bit was a trademark of Freddie Mercury's performances. It started when his mic stand broke mid-show early on in his career, and he stuck with it.
In this video, all Freddie Mercury footage was from Queen's concert at Wembley Stadium, London, in 1986. All David Bowie footage is from the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, also at Wembley, in 1992 (Freddie Mercury died of AIDS in November 1991). The shots of the two of them together are the result of clever editing, as David Bowie never performed this song live with Freddie Mercury.
And now, the elephant in the room - Vanilla Ice's 1990 hit "Ice Ice Baby" sampled "Under Pressure" without giving proper credit where it was due. He even went so far as to claim it was an original beat because it had an "extra note" in the bass line. Queen's record label filed a lawsuit and won. It was this lawsuit which made artists give credit for any music that was sampled into a new recording.
What a perfect Duett
When you guys finally react to the 20 min video of Queen at Live Aid I will be so happy! It’s a day full of the most famous artists and bands in the world raising money for Africa, and the band that stood out above all was Queen. You will love it!!
this old lady loves you two ! Your family is adorable! The music I grew up and I listened too are mostly what you’re listening to now. That makes me so happy ! I miss Freddie and David so much. So glad younger generations at least will check it out . Makes me so happy.
The story for half a mic stand goes like this: in the early days of Queen, 72/73, during a live performance, Freddie's mic stand snapped in half at the "twist" where you raise and lover it. The top half came right out of the bottom half. Freddie, the true performer that he was, continued the show because "The Show Must Go On". Well every subsequent show after that for the rest of Queen's performances, he used the half a mic stand. It became like his scepter.
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This song started out as just a jamming session between Queen and Bowie, and progressed to the song you here today. And the story about Freddie’s microphone stand is that when they were performing in the early days, during a gig Freddie’s microphone stand broke early during the performance and he was forced to perform the rest of the set with just the top stand, but found it enabled him to move more freely about the stage (which as we all know was his brilliant style) so he incorporated it more permanently into the act and subsequently the videos
Heard this, hundreds of times, get chills EVERY single time.
There's actually a wee story behind the mic that Freddie used.
When he first appeared with Brian May and Roger Taylor before they had even changed the band's name to Queen Freddie Mercury had a problem with the microphone and it's stand on one particular occasion and he ended up breaking the stand.
So the the sort of half stand became associated with Freddie Mercury over the years.
That is NOT “Ice, Ice Baby”. “Ice, Ice Baby” wanted to be this when it grew up.
😂🤣🤣Exactly! 😂😂
Ice ice baby..was sued for using it
Queen won the law suit
Yes, this is the opening that Robert Van Winkle (Vanilla Ice) used for "Ice Ice Baby," and yes, he did get sued for it. At the time I suggested this one, I was curious whether you guys would recognize that bass track; you did not disappoint. Also, the idea of Jordan dressing up as Freddie Mercury is awesome! We need videos of Jordan Mercury and Amber Joplin!
My recommendation this time is another great Queen song that has a really fun music video: "I Want to Break Free." Obviously, you'll have to react to the official music video of that one. I've been wanting to see you react to that one for a while!
Under Pressure will always be Queen and Bowie. Always!
It has been said, that when they went to record this, Freddie and David were trying to out do the other. I would have liked to be a fly on the wall that day. They never did this live, who ever edited this together did a awesome job ‼️
And according to Brian and Roger there may have been some adult beverages involved in the writing :)
@@nanner3200 lol
I believe Nacho productions edited this.
If u search for it you can find the recordings of just Freddie and David’s voices from that session. A friend of mine found it one day and we listened it to and it’s amazing. Just those 2 voices now music just those 2. Also this is a Bowie song featuring Queen just FYI it’s not technically a Queen song.
Yup. They both decided not to listen to the other. Freddie went first and then Bowie. Queen's manager says that Freddie couldn't believe how well Bowie's section turned out. Little did he know Bowie cheated - he was listening by the door.
Love when Amber get so into the music sways. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO MOODY BLUES NIGHTS IN WHITE SATIN 💙 you won't be disappointed, YOU'LL LOVE IT.
I’ve been asking for that. But it has to be w/the Late Lament ending
OMG Freddy Mercury and David Bowie two of the greatest, I get chills from them! Vanilla Ice got in trouble for using the sound, he tried to explain it was different sound! lol
Fat chance 🤣🤣🤣
This song is a masterpiece. Both Bowie and Mercury complement each other so well. 🎶💕
I start getting ready to tear up when I think about Freddie and David being gone.... but then their music just fills me full of love and warmth and good vibes, and I realize "the music goes on and on and on and on..." a quote from a Pet Shop Boys song, It's Alright, from the album Introspective. So great to see both of you enjoying and appreciating all this great music.
This is definitely one of my favorites of all time, the message behind it was so strong. These men were trying to change the world with this message. They dared us to redefine how we love ourselves and each other.
Freddie Mercury was one of the most iconic front man that ever graced a stage and David Bowie is right there with him y'all really should check out Queen at Live Aid their whole performance is epic you get to see Freddie hold that crowd right in the palm of his hand
This video combined two performances - Queen playing the song and David Bowie playing with the rest of Queen and Annie Lennox who sings Freddie's part at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992 after he passed. You should watch the Tribute Concert performance because Annie kills it and it's so emotional.
That's true this video is a creation of some thingy that never happened.
There will NEVER be another Freddie. He was so frigging amazing ❤Miss you Freddie R.I.P.
This is such a good video, whoever made it. It's two different performances using footage from Queen with both Freddie and Bowie to sync up into one video. It works really well.
Honestly, two of the greatest voices in history from that era. How can you go wrong?
One of the greatest Queen songs of all time and there really were soo many amazing songs, one if THE greatest band of all time
so it is pronounced BOW (as in bow & arrow) - ee.
and this video was edited from 2 different performances, as david and freddie never performed this song together. LOVE THIS SONG ❤
Two of the greatest singers that ever lived. Both Freddie and David were perfection! Sadly never got to see Queen live. Did get to see Bowie live 3 times and he was excellent!!!!
When Freddie says "why don't we give our love one more chance?"
love had a special meaning that day. Millions of people were globally united to fight poverty and starvation.
If you want to do an iconic performance by queen you could do their live aid set, I think it’s about 20 minutes long.
Iconic as in one of the most electrifying live performances ever captured on film! Epic doesn't do it justice!
They should follow it with Bowie's. It would be very appropriate!!! 🥰💙
I discovered this AMAZING duet thanks to the actor Tom Hiddleston, who loves this song. Now I love it too. 😁❤️
Queen, Freddy Mercury and David Bowie are such iconic artists, they were amazing. Eventhough they are both dead now 😢they still are amazing, their music lives on.
David Bowie has an imperfect perfection to his voice. Give "Heros" by him a listen.
Bowie is my all time favorite!! He has so many wonderful and different sounds. He and Freddie together is heaven.
As you said: Definitely one of the most perfect and iconic duos or duets in pop/rock history! It's so sad that the both of them still have passed away. R.I.P. David and Freddie 🕯
Still have passed away? Sadly, it's permanent.
I love how much you love these artists. I was lucky enough to grow up listening to them in the UK and to see them live. I was blessed. The world was blessed with their wonderful music and I am so happy that you are now enjoying it too :)
The whole concert of Queen at Wembly was epic!