While making the rounds to promote the new Queen in 3-D book, Brian May made some interesting comments about the collaboration between the band and David Bowie for “Under Pressure”.
May told Mojo (via Radio X) that the studio sessions in 1981 produced more material than just “Under Pressure”.
“It wasn’t easy …,” he said. “(We were) all precocious boys.”. He also called Bowie as particularly “forceful,” saying Bowie and Queen singer Freddie Mercury “locked horns, without a doubt.” Regardless of the butting of heads, May recalls the sessions as wonderful.
“Those are the things that happen in a studio,” said May. That’s when the sparks fly and that’s why it turned out so great. “[They locked horns] in subtle ways, like who would arrive last at the studio. So it was sort of wonderful and terrible. But in my mind, I remember the wonderful now, more than the terrible.”
Near the end of the discussion on Bowie and Queen, May teased the idea of putting out more from their collaboration. “Not all of what we did in those sessions has ever come to light,” he added. “So there’s a thought … ”