But though Mercury would recall that it “came about by chance, my dears… We began to dabble on something together, and it happened very spontaneously and very quickly indeed,” Queen had actually been struggling for a while with what became the basis of the song. “This thing” would be Under Pressure – one of a handful of collaborations Bowie and Queen put on tape. “I knew Roger the drummer quite well, but I didn’t really know Freddie … I just popped in one day and, somehow or other, we ended up writing this thing together, as usually happens when musicians get together.” “I didn’t know Queen very well,” Bowie told BBC TV’s Top Of The Pops 2 almost two decades later. With Queen settling there in the summer of 1981 to record what would become their Hot Space album, Bowie decided to pay his new neighbours a visit that July. Having recorded the majority of his Lodger album in the town’s Mountain Studios, Bowie was no stranger to the facility when Queen bought it in 1979, just two months after Lodger’s release. Seeking some remove from the media glare, Bowie had relocated to Switzerland in 1976, making a home for himself in Blonay, just a stone’s throw away from Lake Geneva and a ten-mile drive north from Montreux. “Somehow or other, we ended up writing this thing together”
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