Hot Space
Whilst it may not be the "quintessential" Queen album, it would be wrong to overlook some of the many great songs on the album. In particular, Freddie's "Life is Real", a dedication to John Lennon. "Staying Power" is also another strong track. "Body Language" and "Backchat" though may be looked upon less favorably....
There is an unreleased version of "Cool Cat" featuring David Bowie on vocals.
Under Pressure went to number 1 in many territories. It was the result of an improptu session, when David Bowie visited the band whilst they were recording in Montreux.
Whilst Queen added the song to their live set pretty much straight-away, David Bowie took many years to (seemingly) appreciate the song. Originally, he was quoted as saying that the song stood up better as a "demo", rather than a full fledged song.
From 1995 the song became a mainstay to David Bowie's live sets, and often one of the high lights of the show. The Freddie Mercury vocal was sung by his bass player, Gail Anne Dawsey, who is a huge Queen fan.
Cat. No: EMA 797/CDP7 46215 2 (UK) HR 61038 (USA)
Release Date: 21 May 1982 (UK) 25 May 1982 (USA)
Produced By: Queen and Mack, except * (Queen/Bowie)
Engineered By: Mack and David Richards
Recorded At: Mountain and Musicland
When: September 1981 - March 1982
Guest Musicians: Arif Mardin - horns on Staying Power
Cover Concept: Freddie Mercury
Highest Chart Pos: 4 (UK) 22 (USA)
Weeks on Chart: 19 (UK) 21 (USA)
Award Status: Gold (UK and USA)
Hollywood Records remastered 1991 release bonus tracks: Body Language (1991 remix)
Tracklist
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Staying Power
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Dancer
View lyrics
I'm not invited to the party
Been sitting here all night
I'm all alone at the party
I don't feel all right
Ain't got no black coat
Ain't got no tie
I gotta shape up now
Come on baby you gotta know why
Take off!
Dancer dancer
I can't live with it I'm gonna die without it
Dancer dancer
Ain't no doubt about it
Dancer dancer
Why don't you kick off your dancing shoes
And come and ride with me? Cool
You're the life and soul of the funk-tion
It took me all night
To get hold of the right introduction
Blew me out of sight
I taste your lipstick
I look in your eyes
You feel fantastic
My body cries
Take off
Dancer dancer
I can't live with it I'm gonna die without it
Dancer dancer
Ain't no doubt about it
Dancer dancer
Why don't you kick off your dancing shoes
And come and ride with me?
Hot space let's go!
Yeah, can I see you baby?
Dancer dancer
I can't believe you're dancing
Dancer dancer
Can't take you home
I can't take you dancing
Dancer dancer
Bring out the funk and dance the night away
Dancer dancer
We got bully
Dancer dancer
"Guten abend. Sie wuenschen, geweckt zu werden"
Dancer dancer
Dancer dancer
Dance dance dance dance
Dancer dancer -
Back Chat Single
View lyrics
Yeah
Get back get back
Back chat back chat
You burn all my energy
Back chat back chat
Criticizing all you see
Back chat back chat
Analysing what I say
Back chat back chat
And you always get your way
Oh yeah! See what you've done to me
Back chat back chat
It's driving me insane
Survival to the end
Knock you down you come again
Talk back talk back
You've got me on the wrack
Twisting every word I say
Wind me up and get your way
Fat chance I have of making a romance
If I'm ever going to win
Have to get the last word in
Take it from there
Twisting every word I say Huh!
Wind me up and let me play
Back chat back chat
You burn all my energy
Back chat back chat
Criticizing all you see
Back chat back chat
Analysing what I say
Back chat back chat
And you always get your way
Come on now
Wake up stand up
And drag yourself on out
Get down get ready
Scream and shout
Back off me be cool
And learn to change your ways
Because you're talking in your sleep
And you're walking in a daze
Don't push your luck
I'm ready to attack
Because when I'm trying to talk to you
All you do is just talk back
You stand so tall you don't frighten me at all
Don't talk back don't talk back
Don't talk back just leave me alone
Back chat back chat
You burn all my energy
Back chat back chat
Criticizing all you see
Back chat back chat
Analysing what I say
Back chat back chat
And you always get your way
Yes you do
Yes you do baby
Come on back chat back chat
Back chat back chat
Back chat back chat
Go for it go for it go for it baby
Back chat back chat
You're giving me the runaround
Critisizing (oh yeah),analysing (oh yeah)
Yeah merci beaucoup
Get on down.. -
Body Language Single
The video was seemed to risque for many TV stations and they banned playing it.
View lyrics
Give me body give me body body
Give me your body
Don't talk don't talk don't talk don't talk
Baby don't talk
Body language body language body language
Give me your body
Just give me yeah your body
Give me yeah your body
Don't talk
Body language huh huh
Body language body language
You got red lips snakes in your eyes
Long legs great thighs
You got the cutest ass I've ever seen
Knock me down for a six any time
Look at me I gotta case of body language
Look at me I gotta case of body language
Look at me I gotta case of body language
Look at me I gotta case of body language
Of body language of body language
Yeah sexy body sexy sexy body
I want your body
Baby you're hot
Body language body language body language
Body language body language body language
Body language body language body language -
action this day
View lyrics
Action
This street honey is a mean street
Living in this street honey needs a mean streak
We've got criminals living in this street
But there's a heart beat pulse
That keeps on pumping
Like a juke box playing the same dead record
Or a radio in the corner keeps blaring
I got a feeling this world is using me
This town honey is a dead town
Living in this town honey is a let down
Coming to this town honey is a show down
But there's a heart beat pulse
That keeps on pumping some sunshine ray
Through a crack in the shutter
Or a sight of a light at the end of a tunnel
Still there's a feeling this world is using me
Action this day action this night
Oh we've gotta learn to love to live
You can't say it ain't right
Action this day action this night
Oh you've got the power you've got the power
You've got the power to love to live
You can't say it ain't right
Your mind honey is a bleak place
Living in your minds living in a blank space
Your mind is coming from a rat race
But there's a heart beat pulse
That keeps on pumping
Like a juke box playing the same dead record
Or a radio in the corner keeps blaring
I got a feeling that just won't quit
This world is using me
Action this day action this night
Oh we've gotta learn to love to live
We can't say it ain't right
Action this day action this night
Oh you've got the power you've got the power
You've got the power to love to live
You can't say it ain't right
Action action this day
Action this day
Action action this day
Action this day
Living in the street...
Action... -
Put out the Fire
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They called him a hero
In the land of the free
But he wouldn't shake my hand boy
He disappointed me
So I got my hand gun
And I blew him away
That critter was a bad guy
And I had to make him pay
You might fear for my reason
I don't care what they say
Look out baby it's the season
For the mad masquerade
Put out the fire put out the fire put out the fire
Oh you need a bullet like a hole in the head
Put out the fire put out the fire put out the fire
Don't believe what your grand-daddy said
She was my lover
It was a shame that she died
But the constitution's right on my side
Because I caught my lover in the neighbours bed
I got retribution
Filled 'em all full of lead
I've been told it's the fashion
To let me on the streets again
It's nothing but a crime of passion
And I'm not to blame
Put out the fire put out the fire put out the fire
You need a weapon like a hole in the head
Put out the fire put out the fire baby put out the fire
And let your sons and daughters sleep sound in their beds
You know a gun never killed nobody
You can ask anyone
People get shot by people
People with guns
Put out the fire put out the fire put out the fire
You need a gun like a hole in the head
Put out the fire put out the fire put out the fire
Just tell me that old fashioned gun law is dead
Shoot shoot.. -
Life is real (song for Lennon)
Freddie dedicated this song to John Lennon.
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Guilt stains on my pillow
Blood on my terraces
Torsos in my closet
Shadows from my past
Life is real life is real
Life is real so real
Sleeping is my leisure
Waking up in a minefield
Dream in just a pleasure dome
Love is a roulette wheel
Life is real life is real
Life is real oh yeah
Success is my breathing space
I brought it on myself
I will price it I will cash it
I can take it or leave it
Loneliness is my hiding place
Breast feeding myself
What more can I say?
I have swallowed the bitter pill
I can taste it I can taste it
Life is real life is real
Life is real
Music will be my mistress
Loving like a whore
Lennon is a genius
Living in every pore
Life is real life is real
Life is real so real
Life is cruel life is a bitch
Life is real so real
Life is real life is real yeah
Life is real -
Calling all Girls Single
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Calling all boys calling all girls
Calling all people on streets
Around the world
Take this message a message for you
This message is old yeah
This message is true this message is
This message is this message is this message is
Love take a message of love
Far and near
Take a message of love for all to hear
For all to hear
Some sleepless nights in wait for you
Some foreign presence you feel
Comes seeping through
Some stream of hope
The whole world through
Spread like some silent disease
You'll get yours too
This message is this message is
This message is this message is
Love take a message of love
Far and near
Take a message of love for all to hear
For all to hear
Love take a message of love
Far and near
Take a message of love for all to hear
For all to hear
Calling all boys calling all girls
Calling all boys calling all girls
Calling all girls -
Las palabras de amor Single
Queen performed the song on Top of the Pops.
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Don't touch me now
Don't hold me now
Don't break the spell darling
Now you are near
Look in my eyes and speak to me
The special promises I long to hear
Las palabras de amor
Let me hear the words of love
Despacito mi amor
Love me slow and gently
One foolish world so many souls
Senselessly hurled through
The never ending cold
And all for fear and all for greed
Speak any tongue
But for gods' sake we need
Las palabras de amor
Let me hear the words of love
Despacito mi amor
Let me know this night and evermore
This room is bare
This night is cold
We're far apart and I'm growing old
But while we live
We'll meet again
So then my love
We may whisper once more
It's you I adore
Las palabras de amor
Let me hear the words of love
Despacito mi amor
Touch me now
Las palabras de amor
Let us share the words of love
For evermore evermore
For evermore -
Cool Cat
A version exists with DAvid Bowie on vocals.<br /> <br /> Written by Freddie and John.
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Oooh yeah yeah yeah yeah!
You're taking all the sunshine away
Making out like you're the main line (I knew that)
Because you're a cool cat
Tapping on the toe with a new hat
Oooh just cruising
Driving along like the swing king
Feeling the beat of my heart huh!
Feeling the beat of my heart
Oooh you're a cool cat
Coming on strong with all the chit chat
Oooh you're alright
Hanging out and stealing all the limelight
Oooh messing with the beat of my heart yeah!
Oooh you used to be a mean kid
Oooh making such a deal of life
Oooh you were wishing and hoping and waiting
To really hit the big time
But did it happen? happen no!
You're speeding to fast slow down
Slow down you'd better slow down slow down
You really know how to set the mood
And you really get inside the groove
Cool cat tapping on the toe with a new hat
Oooh just cruising
Driving along like the swing king
Feeling the beat of my heart
Feeling the beat of my heart yeah!
Feeling the beat of my heart
Can you feel it?
Feeling the beat of my heart
Feeling the beat of my heart
Oooh feeling feeling feeling
Feeling every feeling -
Under Pressure Single
Written by Queen and David Bowie - in the space of 24 hours.<br /> <br /> David came into the Mouintain Studios in Montreux where Queen were recording. They jammed around a little, and decided to see what they could do.... The result is "Under Pressure".<br /> <br /> Queen provide the b-side for the single release "A Human Body".
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Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man ask for
Under pressure
That burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
Bah bah bah bah bah bah
Bah bah bah bah bah bah
That's OK!
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming let me out!
Pray tomorrow takes me higher
Pressure on people
People on streets
Do do do bah bah bah bah
OK
Chipping around
Kick my brains round the floor
These are the days
It never rains but it pours
People on streets
People on streets
It's the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming let me out!
Pray tomorrow takes me higher higher higher
Pressure on people
People on streets
Turned away from it all
Like a blind man
Sat on a fence but it don't work
Keep coming up with love
But it's so slashed and torn
Why why why?
Love love love love
Insanity laughs under pressure we're cracking
Can't we give ourselves one more chance?
Why can't we give love that one more chance?
Why can't we give love give love give love?
Give love give love give love give love give love?
Because love's such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care
For 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