10 David Bowie Songs That Will Make Your Life Better

2. Under Pressure (1981)

Bowie may have been earning all the acclaim for Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), from which he had spawned the indomitable Ashes to Ashes - but a year on, his duet with Queen would vault him back to the top of the charts.

Debate rages over just who brought the instinctive bass groove to the table, but one only has to take a look to the solo versions performed by both Freddie Mercury and Bowie in concert to realise that their pairing gave this work an extra dash of pure alchemy. The fact they never performed it together at Live Aid, when they had back-to-back sets, remains a great miss.

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