Quote related to 'Under Pressure' from 'Hot Space'

The story of this song is complex, really: we just happened to be in the studio, really, with David. He just dropped in and we started off jamming, playing around, and I think we went out for some food and we thought, “oh, wouldn't it be fun to kick around some original ideas?” John came up with the riff which starts it all off. We all got into it - suddenly I remember putting in the heavy chords stuff. And then it came to the point of, “What is this song about and what's the melody line?”, and David came up with the idea of us all going in one after the other and singing what we thought the tune should be - I think he'd already done this with some other people prior to that. We sat down and chose bits of everything, it was really done in an odd way – I know David was very into it at the time, the idea of putting newspaper clippings together as well to make lyrics was one of David's things - so that gave you the tune and, really, at that point, David started to feel very strongly about what he felt the song was about so he wrote a set of lyrics. First of all it was called People on Streets, but then he wanted to revise it and it became slightly more abstract, it became Under Pressure.

Brian May; Greatest Video Hits II, 2003