HOW DID I MISS THIS ONE.. | Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure (Classic Queen Mix) REACTION! 

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Vanilla Ice actually got sued for using that without permission. Queen definitely did it first.

If there is ever any doubt always know Queen did it first.

Can you imagine any scenario where Queen and/or Bowie would ever even be influenced by Vanilla Ice let alone rip him off? LOL

Now they're both singing this in heaven, RIP both of them. The short period they walked on this planet they wrote music-history and forever live on in our memories as they are legends now and legends will never die!

Some of my favorite lyrics ever : "Cause love's such an old-fashioned word, And 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."

I always liked Vanilla’s explanation about how you can tell he didn’t sample this song. The look on his face as he said it made it clear he knew he was lying.

There's no better reaction. Freddie's highest note hits on a diferent level.

Fame, Changes and Young Americans are three of Bowie’s songs to start you off.

Vanilla Ice straight up stole that lick.

"David Bowie and Queen just thugged it up a lil" is literally the funniest thing you've ever said i nearly choked

There's nothing better than watching someone experience great music.

Fun fact: Queen and Bowie never played this live together, it was only performed together in the recording! The footage of Bowie is from Freddie’s tribute concert in ‘92 edited in with Queens performance in ‘86 :)

There’s a video of Annie Lennox and David Bowie doing this song at the Freddie Mercury tribute that will rip your heart out. 😞

David Bowie - let's dance

Rest in peace to 2 of the most iconic singers of my lifetime. I never cry when a celeb dies, but when Bowie passed, Niagra Falls.

Freddie Mercury and David Bowie are rocking together in heaven. Two absolute legends, we will never again experience anyone like them.

Queens performance of under pressure (where he wears the yellow jacket) is so iconic. And David bowie at the Freddie mercury tribute concert is so good. They are both worth watching in their own.

My absolute favourite collaboration. The talent here is off the chart 💖

I've watched many "first time hearing" videos and you're the first person to mention that "NOTE" Freddie hits. Kudos and good ears for the listener!! Two thumbs up. Now... you still need to dip into more Queen, like "Get Down Make Love." I'd absolutely love to see your reaction on that one.

I am so glad song was combined this way with two legends. I STILL get chills at the climax of this song.

Freddie and Bowie wrote this song in a night. They were having dinner and said they should collaborate on a song so they did just that. They each went to seperate studios and wrote their sections and put it together. John Deaks came up with the base line😊

Queen definitely did it first, and the best. That’s why Ice is doing home repair on tv now.

you're hilarious! this song came out years before Ice Baby. Rap artists sample rock bass riffs. It's what they do. They are quite talented with what they can do with it - but the grungy riffs need to exist first. Beastie Boys used the drums from Zepplin's When Levee Breaks, Ton Loc used Van Halen's Janey's Crying drums and guitar "waah pedal" distortion in Wild Thing. MC Hammer used SuperFreak for his song. There are many others. But I will say - watching you young millenials all listen to this song for the first and time and flip out has become a guilty pleasure of mine. Yours was hysterical.

By now you should’ve discovered that no rap song has an original instrumental “beat”, they’re ALL from somewhere else

Oh oh oh....you need to watch Freddie vs the crowd at Wembley! You won't regret it!

David Bowie's voice is butter 🧈 Queen sued Vanilla Ice for copyright infringement. Queen/Bowie came first!

Freddie famously said never to play your new ides to Bowie, as you would hear them the following week in the charts lol

RIP to them both. I was probably more of a Bowie fan than a Queen fan. But, that's not to imply I didn't like Queen too. When Bowie died (2016) it was the first time I actually felt old!! I mean the ones I had heard all my life were dying. Very sad. Anyway, I loved this version of Under Pressure, Bowie and Mercury harmonized great together! Glad you enjoyed it!

Young Americans - David Bowie banger.

Bowie and Freddie have their own unique glam and flamboyance that are very complementary!

Reputed to have that rare four-octave vocal range, Mercury's voice could escalate, within a few short bars, from a deep, dark growl all the way up to a bright, shining coloratura (via various chromatic shades of tenor). On the technical side of things, he's known to have one of the best voices ever.

Under Pressure evolved from a chance encounter jam session that Bowie had with the band at Queen's studio in Montreux, Switzerland. It's credited as being co-written by all five musicians (Bowie, Mercury, Deacon, May and Taylor). I love this song.

Coolness x Brian May the guitarist with the curls 😁 is an astrophysicist.

The show must go on - Queen (my personal favorite Freddie's vocals are legendary)

I love David Bowie’s eyes, one ice blue why one brown eye. He fought the good fight and his long time marriage to model Iman was is beautiful. This was an awesome collaboration. I remember hearing that Vanilla Ice song intro and being so pissed off the little chump ripped off Queens distinctive opening to under pressure.

Mr. Video, you really like our music from back in the day???? I'm loving you (u r making me smoke when I watch your channel)I am 61 female and you crack me up, you so crazy, I can't help but feel it too! Thanks for all the great reactions!!!!!!!!!!!!

Two of the planets most brilliant performers !!!!!

These two men were brilliant. May they RIP Great reaction. Thank you. Much love 💙🎵🎶

You had me rolling over here when you played the ending four times over - so funny and so real! That ending deserves instant replays!

Seriously I am close to crying thinking of these two greats no longer on this earth making music. It's so enjoyable watching someone who you can tell loves music discovering all the music I grew up listening to

It's Bow-ee like a bow snd arrow and he's of the great rock icons of all time, you really need to take a deep dive into his stuff.

Queen did it first in the 80’s and vanilla ice sampled the song in Ice Ice Baby was early 90’s and had a whole conversation so had to give them writing credits

"Under Pressure" is a song by the British rock band Queen and singer David Bowie. Originally released as a single in October 1981, it was later included on Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Queen's second number-one hit in their home country (after 1975's "Bohemian Rhapsody", which topped the chart for nine weeks) and Bowie's third (after the 1975 reissue of "Space Oddity" and "Ashes to Ashes" in 1980). The song charted in the top 10 in more than ten countries around the world, and peaked at No. 29 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in January 1982. The song has been described as a "monster rock track that stood out" on the Hot Space album, as well as "an incredibly powerful and poignant pop song". It was listed at number 31 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '80s, and voted the second best collaboration of all time in a poll by Rolling Stone magazine. It was played live at every Queen concert from 1981 until the end of the band's touring career in 1986. Live recordings appear on the Queen live albums Queen Rock Montreal and Live at Wembley '86. The song was included on some editions of Queen's first Greatest Hits compilations, such as the original 1981 Elektra release in the US. It is included on the band's compilation albums Greatest Hits II, Classic Queen, and Absolute Greatest as well as Bowie compilations such as Best of Bowie (2002), The Platinum Collection (2005), Nothing Has Changed (2014), Legacy (2016), and Re:Call 3 (2017). Queen had been working on a song called "Feel Like", but were not satisfied with the result. David Bowie had originally gone to Mountain Studios to sing backing vocals on another Queen song, "Cool Cat", but his vocals were removed from the final song because he was not satisfied with his performance. Once he got there, they worked together for a while and wrote the song. The final version, which became "Under Pressure", evolved from a chance encounter jam session that Bowie had with the band at Queen's studio in Montreux, Switzerland. It was credited as being co-written by the five musicians. The scat singing that dominates much of the song is evidence of the jam-beginnings as improvisation. However, according to Queen bassist John Deacon (as quoted in a French magazine in 1984), the song's primary musical songwriter was Freddie Mercury - though all contributed to the arrangement. As Brian May recalled to Mojo magazine in October 2008, "It was hard, because you had four very precocious boys and David, who was precocious enough for all of us. David took over the song lyrically. Looking back, it's a great song but it should have been mixed differently. Freddie and David had a fierce battle over that. It's a significant song because of David and its lyrical content." The earlier, embryonic version of the song without Bowie, "Feel Like", is widely available in bootleg form, and was written by Queen drummer Roger Taylor. There has also been some confusion about who had created the song's bassline. John Deacon said (in Japanese magazine Music life in 1982) that David Bowie created it. In more recent interviews, Brian May and Roger Taylor credited the bass riff to Deacon. Bowie, on his website, said the bassline was already written before he became involved. Roger Taylor, in an interview for the BBC documentary Queen: the Days of Our Lives, stated that Deacon did indeed create the bassline, stating that all through the sessions in the studio he had been playing the riff over and over. He also claims that when the band returned from dinner, Deacon, amusingly, forgot the riff, but fortunately Taylor was still able to remember it. Brian May clarified matters in a 2016 Mirror Online article, writing that it was actually Bowie, not Taylor, who had inadvertently changed the riff. The riff began as "Deacy began playing, 6 notes the same, then one note a fourth down". After the dinner break, Bowie changed Deacon's memory of the riff to "Ding-Ding-Ding Diddle Ing-Ding". "Ice Ice Baby" is a hip hop song written by American rapper Vanilla Ice, K. Kennedy, and DJ Earthquake. It was based on the bassline of "Under Pressure" by Queen and David Bowie, who did not receive songwriting credit or royalties until after it had become a hit. Released on his debut album, To the Extreme, it is his best known song. It has appeared in remixed form on Platinum Underground and Vanilla Ice Is Back! A live version appears on the album Extremely Live, while a nu metal version appears on the album Hard to Swallow, under the title "Too Cold". "Ice Ice Baby" was first released as the B-side to Vanilla Ice's cover of "Play That Funky Music", but the single was not initially successful. When disc jockey David Morales played "Ice Ice Baby" instead, it began to gain success. "Ice Ice Baby" was the first hip hop single to top the Billboard Hot 100. Outside the United States, the song topped the charts in Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Ireland and the United Kingdom, thus helping the song diversify hip hop by introducing it to a mainstream audience. After audiences began to view Van Winkle as a novelty act and a pop star rather than a legitimate rapper, his popularity began to decline. Detroit-based rapper Eminem states that when he first heard "Ice Ice Baby", "I felt like I didn't want to rap anymore. I was so mad, because he was making it real hard for me." Van Winkle lost some credibility among hip hop fans, but later began to regain some success, attracting a new audience outside of the mainstream audience that had formerly accepted him and then rejected him. "Ice Ice Baby" continues to be the song that Van Winkle is best known for internationally, although Van Winkle states that his American fans like his newer music better. According to Rolling Stone, the "Ice Ice Baby"-"Under Pressure" controversy is a landmark music copyright case, since it "sparked discussion about the punitive actions taken in plagiarism cases". The magazine's Jordan Runtagh added: "Though Vanilla Ice paid the price, some argue that isn't enough to make up for the potential credibility lost by Queen and David Bowie, who are now linked to him through a collaboration they had no choice in joining." A live version of the song appeared on the album Extremely Live. "Ice Ice Baby" was rerecorded in a nu metal version titled "Too Cold". Originally intended to be released as a hidden track or B-side, "Too Cold" was featured on Van Winkle's 1998 album Hard to Swallow, and became a radio hit in some markets. In 2000, a remix titled "Ice Ice Baby 2001" was released in Europe as a single, with a newly produced music video. The remix generated new international interest in Van Winkle's music. VH1 and Blender ranked "Ice Ice Baby" fifth on its list of the "50 Most Awesomely Bad Songs Ever". It was also given the distinction by the Houston Press as being the worst song ever to emanate from Texas. In 1999, the song's music video was "retired" on the MTV special 25 Lame, in which Van Winkle himself appeared to destroy the video's master tape. Given a baseball bat, Van Winkle ended up destroying the show's set. However, in December 2007, VH1 ranked the song in 29th place of their 100 Greatest Songs of the 90's. In November 2011 MTV Dance ranked "Ice Ice Baby" at No. 71 in their list of "The 100 Biggest 90's Dance Anthems Of All Time". In 1991, Alvin and the Chipmunks released a cover version entitled "Ice Ice Alvin" for their album The Chipmunks Rock the House. "Weird Al" Yankovic included the chorus as the final song in "Polka Your Eyes Out", the polka medley from his 1992 album Off the Deep End. In 2004, the song was featured in the film 13 Going on 30. In 2010, the song was featured in the Glee episode "Bad Reputation" as performed by Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison).

Two of the most powerful voices on the planet....May they both R.I.P. "Keep Singing to them Angels my Friends"

Check out David Bowie "Space Oddity". It's mindblowing.

One of my all time favorites...their voices were meant for this 🙏🏼✌️💜

I’ve known these songs all of my life. Watching you enjoy them for the first time reignites them for me in the coolest way!

6:00 this is why this is one of my all time favourites it’s just what this song does to you 😆❤️ putting a massive smile on my face as sways thanks mr video ✌️(p.s not forgetting Freddie’s high note, best part of the song as well as Bowie’s verse at the end 😍)

My favorite song of all time. And the most "2020" song of all time. From 1981!

Make no mistake, Vanilla Ice copied this. Also, while recording this, when Freddie is riffing (ba ba ba).....he was on wine and cocaine. Any Freddie questions, hit me up lol.

It's crazy how Freddie just making noises (like the skee bop things he does) is still better singing than 90% of other artists. His voice was from another planet.

OMG how much do I miss these 2 Legends??!!!!! Their effing A ma Zing vocals, stage presence..Unmatched!!!!!!

Mr Video, you never let me down. I don't love all the songs, but I always enjoy your entertaining reactions. Killing it my friend! By the way, I grew up in Columbus. I'm an Ohio boy. Happy for you that you are making this channel work for you. It's inspiring. Keep killing it, brother.

This is a fan made video - Queen and David Bowie never performed this live together (while Freddie was alive) , it was a studio creation. Brilliant for all that

One of my favorite songs of alltime. Should be 2020 Anthem. So much pressure on everyone this year

Bowie & Mercury. Two generational level talents together.

You need to react to more of David bowie: check this songs Starman life on mars space oddity

Your love and discovery if queen gives me chills and a smile on new videos

Mr. Video you make my evening. After getting home late at night from a 12 hour shift as a first responder. I just love to get comfortable, grab my cup of warm tea and watch your video's. You make me chuckle. just what i need. thank you for your video's. Love you to death.

David Bowie and Queen one side and Vanilla Ice on the other. Now ask yourself again who wrote it? PS absolute tune! More Queen and Bowie for you!

Bowie is an absolute legend! I would love to see you react to Bowie songs.

They did it first. Vanilla Ice took it for his own. Naughty, naughty Vanilla Ice.

Dude ...... the LIVE AT WEMBLEY version of this song was EPIC. His warm up of the crowd was incredible.

One of my favorite songs!! Love you Mr Video ❤

Remember, the older ones always come first. :P. "Under Pressure" 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. That's OK. That's the terror of knowing What this world is about. Watching some good friends screaming, "Let me out!" Tomorrow gets me higher. Pressure on people, people on streets. OK. Chippin' 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!" Tomorrow gets me higher, higher, high! 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, love. Insanity laughs under pressure. We're breaking. 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, give love? 'Cause love's such an old-fashioned word, And 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 dance. This is our last dance. This is ourselves. Under pressure. Under pressure. Pressure.

Queen definitely did it first, and Vanilla Ice lost his shirt in the lawsuit after he stole the bass riff for Ice Ice Baby. Another David Bowie song to check out is "Lets Dance" - your boy SRV played guitar in that one. Legend has it that when Eric Clapton heard the song on the radio, he declared that he had to find out who the guitar player was that day.

I love how your whole mood changes when Bowie is singing!

You may not know that Freddie was a trained Classical and Opera singer that is the reason why he has such highs in his voice and David Bowie is just a Legend

"bow - ee " :) Dancing in the streets with Mick Jagger - It's is the essence of the 80's - Bowies suit reminded me of that gem. Check it out :D

As Woody Allen says - if you're going to steal , steal from the BEST ! :))))

That’s sacrilege! Vanilla Ice doesn’t have a bone in his body to write a song-he can only lift and sample music of others-like he did with Ice Ice Baby!

This is the best Rock song of all time. If only I could have been at that concert. RIP Freddie and David

Show Must Go On - Queen they had so many bangers ⚡️.

Under pressure!!!! Lets get it

Thanks so much for the past 6 months of smiles, giggles and joy. Merry Christmas and many blessings for 2021. 🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁

David Bowie "The Labyrinth" enough said. Absolutely adore your reactions, please don't stop.

There has also been some confusion about who had created the song's bassline. John Deacon said (in Japanese magazine Music life in 1982) that David Bowie created it. In more recent interviews, Brian May and Roger Taylor credited the bass riff to Deacon. Bowie, on his website, said the bassline was already written before he became involved. Roger Taylor, in an interview for the BBC documentary Queen: the Days of Our Lives, stated that Deacon did indeed create the bassline, stating that all through the sessions in the studio he had been playing the riff over and over. He also claims that when the band returned from dinner, Deacon, amusingly, forgot the riff, but fortunately Taylor was still able to remember it. Brian May clarified matters in a 2016 Mirror Online article, writing that it was actually Bowie, not Taylor, who had inadvertently changed the riff. The riff began as "Deacy began playing, 6 notes the same, then one note a fourth down". After the dinner break, Bowie changed Deacon's memory of the riff to "Ding-Ding-Ding Diddle Ing-Ding". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Pressure

Visually, this is my favorite era of Bowie. So handsome!

Cause love's such an old fashioned word And 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- Amen

I can't believe I missed this reaction!! I love YOUr reactions, and Bowie & Freddie just HAPPEN to be my favorite people lol PERFECT STORM OF AWESOMENESS ❤❤✌❤❤

Vanilla added a ting from a cymbal to save himself from copyright infringement

freddie was a fireball, and bowie was an ice cube... and that mix of hot and cool is what makes this song work SO damn well.

Bowie was supposed to sing background on a different Queen song but removed himself from it because he didn't like his performance. But!! While there - they kinda jammed singing other peoples songs. They were doing a ton of coke & drinking wine!! Bowie said "lets just write one!! Queens unreleased song "Feel Like" is what they worked on. Deacon kept playing the bass line which he forgot during dinner 🤣 but got it back with one slight change. They couldn't agree on how the song should sound so Bowie said let's each go in the booth & record our part out own way without hearing the other. Freddie sang the playful improvisons with the ba-ba-ba. Bowie made powerful lyrical change. The song almost didn't make it because there was a battle of wills. You can hear the different style between the two. They left it that way. The result of 5 amazing artists collaborating in a jam session putting their magical touches of Freddie being light, David having a bit of doom, & Deacon's bass line on a piece of music became the masterpiece "Under Pressure." Listen to the song again & read the lyrics sometime Leo - it's really cool. David sang it at Freddie's tribute after his death at Wembley with the great Annie Lennox. It's worth your time to watch.

I listen to this song a few times a week. I love it 😀

Yet more cool british music! Two tone ska next time PLEASE!!! 🇬🇧

Love watching these old legends, let’s hope they are never forgotten

I'm just like you! I can't ever get to the end of this song, no matter how many times I've heard it over the years without hitting rewind. Freddie's vocals are amazing...so are David's but Freddie's just out of this world from the deep to the high and then the smooth in between. BTW, the bass player came up with that riff. They took a break from working on it, and went out to eat. When they got back to the studio, the bass player couldn't remember the riff. Luckily, the drummer finally did.

Yup Vanilla Ice stole this from Queen and got sued. Queen wrote this many years before . Yes- that’s a fan vid. They didn’t sing it together in person. David was singing at Freddy’s memorial concert😥 with Annie Lennox. Leo, you’re a natural dancer!

Sorry, but I’m laughing at all the people saying it’s “bow-ee”. That doesn’t help, because it can still be bow and arrow of ship’s bow. Boh-E.

It is such a joy to watch Mr. Video’s authentic & down-to-earth reactions. 👍🏽👍🏽

Under Pressure" is a song by the British rock band Queen and singer David Bowie. Originally released as a single in October 1981, it was later included on Queen's 1982 album Hot Space. Producer(s): Queen; David Bowie Genre: Rock, pop Studio: Mountain, Montreux B-side: "Soul Brother"

Wish, I could like this a thousand times!! 💞

Only of the great rock songs ever.

This guy is permanently flying. Here are two of the most influential musical artists of the 70's and 80's. Neither one would ever get slated for their sartorial taste.

THAT was music! THESE guys were artists! Performers! Musicians! R.I.P. Freddie and David - we miss you!

Now you need to watch Bowie and Mick Jagger do Dancing in the Streets

You should check out Hereos by David Bowie.... This appears to be pieced together.....but its a great song

John Deacon the bass player of Queen wrote the original bassline for Under Pressure in a studio. The story told by Queen was that after John played the bassline, they all went out and ate lunch and of course had a few drinks as well. When they got back to the studio John couldn't remember the bass riff. It was Brian May or Roger Taylor that reminded him what it was. Both bands wrote this song impromptu in the music studio that day. So that is in and of itself music 🎶 history! Rock on, Mr Video!

Your reactions to Freddie & Queen are priceless!!! I absolutely love when you do a Queen video!!!