Queen and David Bowie: “Under Pressure”
Abstract
This critical karaoke hears David Bowie and Queen’s 1981 collaboration “Under Pressure” as a political and existential torch song, a plea for caring for one another, for love and protest, keyed to the neoliberal wreckage of the 1980s and urgent now in the enduring violence of the present.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Music History and Culture
Musicology and Musical Analysis
Art
Politics
and Modernism
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Duke University Press eBooks
- Pages
- 189–190
- Publication date
- 7 March 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter