Great Isolated Vocal Tracks of Mercury/Bowie "Under Pressure" Vocal Tracks

David Bowie and Freddie Mercury collaborated
brilliantly in the 1981 hit. "Under Pressure."

The other day when I was talking about David Bowie, I said "Heroes" is my favorite song by him, which is true.

But just about my favorite song of all time, by anybody, is "Under Pressure" the Freddie Mercury and Queen collaboration with Bowie, issued in 1981.  

Mercury, one of the greatest rock voices ever, died years ago, and now we've lost Bowie.

Now, hat tip to Boing Boing, we have the isolated vocal tracks of Mercury and Bowie in "Under Pressure."

All the fantastic production values, bells and whistles of the song are gone, and we have just the pair's haunting voices. It serves as a cool, interesting eulogy to these two rock greats.

The first video, below, is just the vocal tracks of the Mercury and Bowie (black screen, just their voices.)

Right under that, is the original music video for "Under Pressure,'" a strange, compelling wonderful video in its own right.

Both performances are really fascinating:

No Shark Bites: Emergency Surgery Frees Shark From Certain Death

There's an endangered aquatic animal, the grey nurse shark that mostly lives around the coast of Australia.

This poor shark along the coast of Australia had a cord
wrapped around it like a noose, which was going to
kill it. Watch what some humans did about this. 

As sharks go, this type isn't really the most likely to chomp a surfer's leg off, but you still want to be careful. Which makes the video in this post all the more interesting to watch.

The danger brought up a dilemna recently when one of the endangered grey nurse shark's was found with an elastic cord that somehow got wrapped around it like a noose. If that cord didn't come off, the shark would die a slow, painful death.

Not wanting THAT to happen, a team of divers and a veterinarian from Sea Life Museum went to work.

The divers went underwater and coaxed the shark into what was essentially a giant, clear sock, which they used to bring her to the surface. They put her on a stretcher, and brought the shark to the surface where the veterinarian was waiting with a pair of scissors.

The vet cut the elastic off and made sure the shark had no additional injuries. The vet grabbed a syringe, injected the shark with an antiobiotic, and the patient was then free to go.

So congratulations to the divers and the veterinarian for a job well done!

Here's the video from 7News in Australia of how the whole thing went. It's fascinating:

What It's Like to Be in a Burning House

Gawd, there's cameras everywhere these days. We're getting inside looks at everything. I posted a few days ago about security cameras inside tornadoes, for example.

People have web cams attached to everything. I found a fascinating video taken from a camera attached to a firefighter's helmet as he went into a burning home with hoses spraying.  It's pretty disorienting, but interesting. A bit like a video game. This house was really blazing, too.

Actually there's a lot of these firefighter camera videos taken from inside burning buildings.  For a wide selection, just go to YouTube and search "firefighter helmet cam interior attack."