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  • Queen & David Bowie: Under Pressure (1981)
  • Music Video | 4 min | Music
Queen & David Bowie: Under Pressure (1981)
Music Video | 4 min | Music
The video for the song features neither Queen nor David Bowie due to touring commitments. Taking the theme of pressure, director David Mallet edited together stock footage of traffic jams, commuter trains packed with passengers, explosions...See moreThe video for the song features neither Queen nor David Bowie due to touring commitments. Taking the theme of pressure, director David Mallet edited together stock footage of traffic jams, commuter trains packed with passengers, explosions, riots, cars being crushed and various pieces of footage from silent films of the 1920s, most notably Sergei Eisenstein's influential Soviet film Battleship Potemkin, the silent Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring John Barrymore, and F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, a masterpiece of the German Expressionist movement. The video explores the pressure-cooker mentality of a culture willing to wage war against political machines, and at the same time love and have fun (there is also footage of crowds enjoying concerts, and lots of black and white kissing scenes). Top of the Pops refused to show the video due to it containing footage of explosions in Northern Ireland, so a choreographed performance was instead shown. Written by Peter-Patrick76 (peter-patrick@mail.com) See less
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Director
David Mallet
Producer
David Bowie
Composers
David Bowie (music by) | John Deacon | Brian May | Freddie Mercury (music by) & 2 more
Cinematographer
Edmund Cupcupin
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Updated Nov 30, 1981
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Nov 1981 (United Kingdom)

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