Ibiza — BOWIE BLOG — A BIKE RIDE WITH DAVID BOWIE

Under Pressure

Bowie created a whole glut of albums in his twenty years in Switzerland. He hung out with Charlie Chaplin, jammed with Nile Rodgers and perhaps most famously of all, recorded ‘Under Pressure’ with Queen. We went to Mountain Studios in Montreux to learn how it was recorded in a haze of squabbles, cocaine and wine.

David Bowie, Life on Mars, Ibiza, Queen, Under PressureJames BriggsJanuary 7, 2022Under Pressure, David Bowie, Queen, Montreux, Mountain Studios, Cocaine, Brian May, Switzerland, Bowie Switzerland, Claude Nobs, Montreux Jazz Festival, Freddie Mercury

From Ibiza....

Off the plane into 36 degree heat. One faulty water bottle, 13 miles of motorways and one nervous dehydrated wreck later, I channel Bowie’s early bohemian phase and stumble into La Playa, Ibiza’s original hippy campsite.