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Under Pressure

A Song by David Bowie and Queen

Narrated by James D. Sasser

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Pub Date Jul 08 2025 | Archive Date Jul 08 2025

Arts & Photography | Entertainment & Pop Culture | Nonfiction (Adult)

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In 1981, David Bowie and Queen both happened to be in Switzerland: They met and made "Under Pressure." Recorded on a lark, the song broke the path for subsequent pop anthems. In Under Pressure, Max Brzezinski tells the classic track's story, charting the relationship between pop music, collective politics, and dominant institutions of state, corporations, and civil society. Brzezinski shows that, like all great pop anthems, "Under Pressure" harnesses collective sentiments in order to model new ways of thinking and acting. As we continue to live under the sign of the global oppressive power the song names, analyzes, and attempts to move beyond, we remain, in Bowie and Freddie Mercury's phrase, under pressure. 

In 1981, David Bowie and Queen both happened to be in Switzerland: They met and made "Under Pressure." Recorded on a lark, the song broke the path for subsequent pop anthems. In Under Pressure, Max...

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Advance Praise

“Max Brzezinski’s riveting and learned account of Queen and David Bowie’s ‘Under Pressure’ could not be more timely. Given the turns of recent events too gruesome but also too well known to enumerate, the song’s outro lines—‘This is our last dance / This is our last dance / This is ourselves’—hit the spot marked X in our present moment.” ―Eric Lott, author of, Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism

“Max Brzezinski’s riveting and learned account of Queen and David Bowie’s ‘Under Pressure’ could not be more timely. Given the turns of recent events too gruesome but also too well known to...

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EDITION Audiobook, Unabridged
ISBN 9781696619462
PRICE $10.99 (USD)
DURATION 3 Hours, 34 Minutes

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