Links to interviews with Bowie about Freddie/Queen/Under Pressure?

Does anyone have any links/know of any interviews where Bowie discusses Freddie? Or his thoughts on Queen, as a band? Or Under Pressure?

I've always been curious what Bowie had to say about Freddie, Queen, Under Pressure, etc., but I've only come up with maybe 2-3 interviews where he mentions any of the aforementioned subjects.

I was looking for the same thing. The only thing i could find is the stuff we've already seen in the DoRo-mentaries (hah!).
Watched the BBC documentary "Sound & Vision"and there was no mention of Queen, Under Pressure or the Freddie tribute.

very vague, but when i saw Bowie he introduced Under Pressure as a song he wrote with Freddie Mercury. Didn't mention Queen or the other guys.

I also remember reading a Q & A session on Bowie.Net where Bowie said that Freddie asked him to produce their first album.

Can only imagine how differently their debut album would have sounded had Bowie produced it!!

The rumour about Fred asking Dave to produce the debut album was denied by Rog:

'Certainly not! But David was producing Lou at the time. We were taking the down-time. Literally, they'd be coming up the stairs and we'd be going down the stairs. David probably remembers it slightly differently, but I doubt he was being 100 per cent serious. Knowing David, very little he says is!'

Source: http://www.brianmay.com/queen/mojoaug99/mojoaug99b.html

[QUOTE] [b]The Fairy King wrote:[/b]

Watched the BBC documentary "Sound & Vision"and there was no mention of Queen, Under Pressure or the Freddie tribute.

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Really? That's ridiculous.

I'd always heard that he disregarded it until the 90's as an unfinished song.

I think it was Gail Ann Dorsey who had it resurrected into his live show. He had never before performed the damn song on his own tours ttbomn.

previously, he did say it stood up better as a "demo". i think you are right with Gail Ann Dorsey, who is a massive Queen fan. Her favourite band i believe.

R

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[QUOTE] [b]The Fairy King wrote:[/b]

Watched the BBC documentary "Sound & Vision"and there was no mention of Queen, Under Pressure or the Freddie tribute.

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Really? That's ridiculous.[/QUOTE]

In the grand scheme of things, I bet there are plenty of Bowie fans who wouldn't think this is in the top ten things he did.

It did hit #1, but this is the same guy who did Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Station To Station, and Low. The Glass Spider tour. Those are pretty groundbreaking things in popular culture.

So maybe some feel it'd be warranted to skip over the song if you only have an hour of things to cover.

[QUOTE] [b]The Real Wizard wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]

[QUOTE] [b]The Fairy King wrote:[/b]

Watched the BBC documentary "Sound & Vision"and there was no mention of Queen, Under Pressure or the Freddie tribute.

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Really? That's ridiculous.[/QUOTE]

In the grand scheme of things, I bet there are plenty of Bowie fans who wouldn't think this is in the top ten things he did.

It did hit #1, but this is the same guy who did Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Station To Station, and Low. The Glass Spider tour. Those are pretty groundbreaking things in popular culture.

So maybe some feel it'd be warranted to skip over the song if you only have an hour of things to cover.
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True - but to me that's like like having a documentary about Freddie and ignoring Barcelona on the grounds of it being an 'offshoot project' that wasn't massively succesful everywhere.

[QUOTE] [b]Richard Orchard wrote:[/b]

previously, he did say it stood up better as a "demo". i think you are right with Gail Ann Dorsey, who is a massive Queen fan. Her favourite band i believe.

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Very true - back in 2005 she was Brian and Roger's chosen bassist for the Q+PR tour, but Rodgers didn't want her for ego reasons; see it in her own words here:

http://www.deangoodman.com/gail-ann-dorsey/

[QUOTE] [b]cmsdrums wrote:[/b]

True - but to me that's like like having a documentary about Freddie and ignoring Barcelona on the grounds of it being an 'offshoot project' that wasn't massively succesful everywhere.[/QUOTE]

Barcelona represented roughly 50% (or at least around 40%) of Freddie's off-Queen career. 'Under Pressure' barely represents 5% of David's. Very few (if any) Queen documentaries have delved into Joan Armatrading's participation on 'Don't Lose Your Head', Sidney Sax's work as orchestra leader on the 'Flash Gordon' OST, Steve Gregory's sax solo on 'One Year of Love' or Arif Mardin's orchestration on 'Staying Power'. And if you're gonna use the argument that they don't compare to 'Under Pressure', then there's another one: 'Innuendo'. Also a hit (a No 1 hit, no less) ... but how many minutes (or seconds) do Queen docos spend on mentioning Steve Howe?

The percentages of who did what are somewhat missing the point, the difference, which Sebastian seems to have overlooked is that the Barcelona project was billed as a collaboration between two artists, as was Under Pressure.

Innuendo was not a Queen and Steve Howe song. Arif Mardin worked on one aspect of Staying Power again it wasn't a Queen and Arif Mardin song and the same applies to Joan Amertrading and Sidney Sax.

None had equal billing in the same way Bowie had or Freddie and Monserat had.

Should every Queen doco go out of its way to include info on the 1998 version of 'Another One Bites the Dust'? It's billed as Queen / Wyclef Jean and it charted higher in Britain than the original song (and far higher in Britain than 'Under Pressure' in America).