''Hot Space'' is the tenth studio album by the British
rock
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* Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ...
band
Queen
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. It was released on 21 May 1982 by
EMI Records in the UK and by
Elektra Records in the US. Marking a notable shift in direction from their earlier work, they employed many elements of
disco,
funk,
rhythm and blues
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,
dance and
pop music
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on the album.
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''Stylus Magazine''. Retrieved 31 May 2011 This made the album less popular with fans who preferred the traditional rock style they had come to associate with the band.
Queen's decision to record a dance-oriented album germinated with the massive success of their 1980 hit "
Another One Bites the Dust" in the US.
"
Under Pressure
"Under Pressure" is a song by the British rock band Queen and singer David Bowie. Originally released as a single in October 1981, it was later included on Queen's 1982 album ''Hot Space''. The song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, ...
", Queen's collaboration with
David Bowie
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, was released in 1981 and became the band's second number one hit in the UK.
Although included on ''Hot Space'', the song was a separate project and was recorded ahead of the album, before the controversy over Queen's new disco-influenced rock sound.
[Lowry, Max (13 July 2008]
The ones that got away
''The Guardian''. Retrieved 3 August 2011 The album's second single, "
Body Language
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", peaked at number 11 on the US charts.
Songs
Overview
![Bass player queen](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9d/Bass_player_queen.jpg)
Before 1979, Queen had never used synthesisers on their albums. Beginning with ''
The Game'', Queen began using
Oberheim OB-X
The Oberheim OB-X was the first of Oberheim's OB-series polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizers.
First commercially available in June 1979, the OB-X was introduced to compete with the Sequential Circuits Prophet-5, which had been success ...
synthesisers on their songs, including "
Play the Game" and "
Save Me". On ''Hot Space'', the band went even further, introducing the
drum machine for the first time. A departure from their trademark seventies sound, most of ''Hot Space'' is a mixture of rhythm and blues, funk, dance and disco, while the rock songs continued in a pop rock direction similar to their previous album (an exception is the song "Put Out the Fire").
During an interview in 1984,
Roger Taylor Roger Taylor may refer to:
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affirmed that "it was really
John ">eacon who turned the band towards a more disco sound. Elaborating, he said: "John’s always been
R&B orientated, our bass player who wrote '
Another One Bites The Dust', ... which turned out to be the biggest selling record of the year. And I think that was the song that catapulted us into taking that road. I think we went too far and did too much. ... Everybody in the band feels that way now."
Disliking the new sound,
Brian May
Brian Harold May (born 19 July 1947) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and astrophysicist, who achieved worldwide fame as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. May was a co-founder of Queen with lead singer Freddie Mercury and ...
and Taylor were critical of the influence that Paul Prenter,
Freddie Mercury's personal manager between 1977 and 1984, had on the singer. Recalling the recording process in 2011, Taylor openly criticized the direction in which Prenter was taking Mercury (and thus the rest of the band), stating that "
renter
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wanted our music to sound like you'd just walked in a gay bar...and I didn't". May also noted that the making of the album in Munich took much longer than usual and that all of the band got into "deep emotional trouble" in the city, blaming a mixture of drink, drugs and partying as the reason for the relatively lengthy recording sessions.
[O'Casey, Matt, dir. (2011) Queen – Days of Our Lives. Part 2. BBC. Queen Productions Ltd. Retrieved 31 May 2011] According to
Mack, Queen's producer, Prenter loathed rock music and was in Mercury’s ear throughout the ''Hot Space'' sessions. Prenter also refused all requests from US radio stations to speak to Mercury. May states, "this guy, in the
course of one tour, told every record station to fuck off. But not just "fuck off", but "Freddie says, ‘fuck off’". Queen
roadie
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Peter Hince wrote "None of the band cared for him
renter
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apart from Freddie", with Hince regarding Mercury's favouring of Prenter as an act of "misguided loyalty".
Side one
"Staying Power"
![Arif Mardin (cropped)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Arif_Mardin_%28cropped%29.jpg)
The horn arrangement for Mercury's "Staying Power" was added by
Arif Mardin
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(who also produced
Chaka Khan and added horn sections to
Bee Gees and
Aretha Franklin records).
"Staying Power" would be performed on the band's accompanying
Hot Space Tour
The Hot Space Tour was the ninth headlining concert tour by the British rock band Queen in support of their 1982 album ''Hot Space''. The tour started on the 9th of April in Gothenburg, Sweden and ended, after sixty-nine concerts, in Tokorozaw ...
, albeit much faster and heavier, with real drums replacing the drum machine and guitars and keyboards replacing the horns. (This arrangement contained no actual bass guitar, as
John Deacon
John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is an English retired musician, best known for being the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He wrote several songs for the group, including Top 10 hits " You're My Best Friend", "Another One Bite ...
played guitar in addition to May.) It was also played on Queen's
The Works Tour
The Works Tour was the tenth headlining concert tour by the British rock band Queen to promote their successful 1984 album '' The Works''. During the tour, Queen participated in the Rock in Rio festival in 1985; the concert was released on VHS. ...
, until it was dropped from the setlist halfway through the European leg of the tour. In Japan, the band released "Staying Power" as a single in July 1982. Mardin's contributions were recorded at
Record Plant Studios
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in New York. The original demo of the track featured a guitar instead of horns.
"Dancer"
The
bassline of May's "Dancer" was played on an
Oberheim OB-Xa
The Oberheim OB-Xa was the second of Oberheim's OB-series polyphonic analog subtractive synthesizers, replacing the OB-X with updated features.
History
The OB-Xa was released in December 1980, replacing the OB-X after only a year on the mark ...
synthesiser by him. The song itself – a fusion of rock and disco – is something of a follow-up to "
Dragon Attack" from the band's 1980 album ''The Game'' in that it fuses heavy elements of music with danceable ones, as
Led Zeppelin
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did.
The phone message at the end of "Dancer" ("Guten Morgen, Sie wünschten, geweckt zu werden.") is in German, and was recorded in a hotel room in
Munich
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; it translates as "Good morning, you wanted to be woken up.". The lyrics of "Dancer" are also notable for being the only ones on the album that make reference to the album title itself.
"Back Chat"
"Back Chat", written by John Deacon, is the track most influenced by
black music
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. In addition to normal bass duties, Deacon also plays rhythm guitar and synthesiser on the song. As the album's final single, it stalled at number 40 on the UK charts and failed to chart in the US.
"Body Language"
"Body Language" is atypical among Queen songs, as there is very little guitar on the track, with the song being driven by a rhythmic bassline. Mercury, who composed the song on synth bass, had previously explored the instrument's potential with his contributions to the ''
Flash Gordon'' soundtrack.
The song's lyrics describe the gay
cruising culture which Mercury was immersed in at the time. The "Body Language" video, featuring scantily clad models writhing around each other in a
bathlike setting, proved somewhat controversial and was banned in a few territories. The song also appeared in the 1984 documentary film ''Stripper'', being performed to by one of the dancers. Whilst the video was restricted to late-night showings on MTV, it nonetheless helped the song become the album's biggest hit in America, reaching number 11 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 in June 1982.
"Action This Day"
"Action This Day", one of two Taylor songs that appear on the album, was clearly influenced by the
new wave movement/style current at the time; the track is driven by a pounding electronic
drum machine in 2/4 time and features a saxophone solo, played by Italian session musician Dino Solera. "Action This Day" takes its title from a
Winston Churchill
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catchphrase that the statesman would attach to urgent documents, and recapitulates the theme of social awareness that Taylor espoused in many of his songs. The band performed "Action This Day" at every show on the Hot Space Tour with a more conventional arrangement, replacing the drum machine and bass synth with a rock
rhythm section and replacing the saxophone solo with an actual synthesizer. The verses are duets between Taylor and Mercury, while the chorus is sung by both.
Side two
"Put Out the Fire"
"Put Out the Fire" is an anti-firearm song written by May, featuring lead vocals and falsetto by Mercury, and backing vocals by Mercury, May and Taylor. May recorded its guitar solo under the influence of alcohol (after many unsuccessful attempts).
Though never released as a single, "Put Out the Fire", the album's most traditional Queen song, later appeared on the ''
Queen Rocks'' compilation in 1997. A new video was also produced for the accompanying video compilation, featuring a live performance of the song intercut with footage of fire and explosions.
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"Life Is Real (Song for Lennon)"
Mercury wrote "Life Is Real" as a tribute to
John Lennon
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,
whose murder in 1980 had also previously prompted the band to perform his song "
Imagine
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" on tour. It is also one of the few Mercury songs whose lyrics were written before the music.
"Life Is Real (Song for Lennon)" was not played live on the European leg of the tour. It was only played a couple of times on the North American leg.
"Calling All Girls"
The first Queen song written by Taylor to be released as a single (albeit in selected countries, including the US and Australia, but not the UK), "Calling All Girls" failed to create much of an impact on the charts where it peaked at number 60 in the US and number 33 in Canada, despite its music video based on the
George Lucas film ''
THX 1138
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''. Taylor composed "Calling All Girls" on guitar and played the feedback noises during the song's break.
Queen never performed the song in Europe, and a live recording from Japan in 1982 is commercially available on the ''
Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl
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'' DVD, where "Calling All Girls" accompanies the photo gallery. The single was released in July 1982.
"Las Palabras de Amor (The Words of Love)"
May's lyrics for "Las Palabras de Amor" were inspired by Queen's close relationship with their Latin-American fans, and have been interpreted as an allegory for the
Falklands War.
A top 20 hit in the UK, "Las Palabras de Amor" marked the band's sixth single to feature at least one in-studio appearance on ''
Top of the Pops
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'', the others being "
Seven Seas of Rhye
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" (three performances, only partially still existing), "
Killer Queen
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" (two performances, one of which only partially exists), "
Now I'm Here
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" (two performances, with only one of them partially existing) and "
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy
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" (one performance). For this mimed performance, May is seen playing a grand piano, although he only played synthesisers on the recording. May also sang lead vocals for the harmonised line "this night and evermore".
"Cool Cat"
![David Bowie Ron Frazier 1977](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/David_Bowie_Ron_Frazier_1977.jpg)
"Cool Cat", written by Mercury and Deacon, originally featured
David Bowie
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on backing vocals and a few lines of spoken word to a rhythm during the
middle eight
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...
. According to Mercury in a 1982 TV interview, Bowie was unhappy with the results and requested that his vocals be removed days before its parent album was slated to be released.
With the exception of the electric piano (which was played by Mercury), all the instruments are played by Deacon, including guitars, synths and a drum machine. On the album version, Mercury sings the entire song in
falsetto. The alternate take with Bowie's vocals still intact is widely available on various
bootleg recordings
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and surfaces from an early 1982 vinyl ''Hot Space'' test pressing from the US. Deacon can be heard using the
slap bass technique throughout the track.
"Under Pressure"
A
duet with Bowie, "Under Pressure" was the result of an impromptu
jam session in the band's
studio in Montreux. When it was released in 1981, "Under Pressure" reached number one in the
UK singles chart
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. Although it was credited to the entire band and Bowie, Mercury was the primary director of this track, with him and Bowie being the main lyricists (each writing the lines they sang). John Deacon came up with the bass riff. Part of the
chord progression
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is based on a rough demo of an unreleased song, "Feel Like".
The songwriting is credited to all five participants.
Tour
The 1982 Hot Space Tour was Queen's last tour of North America until the
Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour
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in 2005. The band did not tour North America for
The Works tour
The Works Tour was the tenth headlining concert tour by the British rock band Queen to promote their successful 1984 album '' The Works''. During the tour, Queen participated in the Rock in Rio festival in 1985; the concert was released on VHS. ...
in 1984, nor
The Magic tour in 1986, after which they ceased touring, due to Mercury's ill-health with
AIDS.
Release and reception
Due to its
dance-pop sound, ''Hot Space'' is widely considered by both fans and critics to be one of Queen's most artistically disappointing albums.
Stephen Thomas Erlewine of
AllMusic
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said of the album that "the band that once proudly proclaimed not to use synthesizers on their albums has suddenly, dramatically reversed course, devoting the entire first side of the album to robotic, new wave dance-pop, all driven by drum machines and colored by keyboards, with Brian May's guitar coming in as flavor only on occasion."
Alex Petridis of ''
The Guardian
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'' gave the album two stars and said: "Like Queen, disco was melodramatic, unrepentantly camp, extravagantly arranged and omnivorous in its influences. Or at least it had been. By the time of 1982's ''Hot Space'', disco had mutated into the weird, skeletal, dubby electronic sound pioneered by DJ Larry Levan, which really didn't suit Queen at all." Despite this, "Under Pressure" remains one of the band's staple songs.
Sandy Robertson of
Sounds
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In human physiology and psychology, sound is the ''reception'' of such waves and their ''perception'' by the ...
gave the album four stars, describing it as "fairly lickable funkpop" featuring "'Put Out The Fire'... with, plenty screaming Brian May axe histrionics ... a ballad in the old boy's mode called 'Life Is Real' ... a candymix of phasers, acoustics and electrics in 'Calling All Girls' ... sleazy keyboard/vocal pomp sobs in 'Las Palabras De Amor' ... a languid summer streak and slow slide through 'Cool Cat' and the cornerstone 'Under Pressure' itself."
Legacy
Michael Jackson
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, who was close friends with the band during the time, later cited ''Hot Space'' as an influence for his own album ''
Thriller''.
In a 2015 interview with Greg Prato of Songfacts,
Extreme guitarist
Nuno Bettencourt
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described how ''Hot Space'' had been an important album for him as a musician. "I think it's interesting because that album taught me two things. It taught me that even if you're in a band as a guitar player, music doesn't have to be driven by guitar - it's about the song, first. But I think the main thing is that Queen actually did an album like that - it was the fans' least favorite, but it was one of my favorites because it took a risk and branched out. All those synth parts they did and horns, I could always hear them with guitar in my head somehow. But quite oddly enough, or coincidentally enough, the title ''Hot Space'' is exactly what it meant: it's all the space between the music. That's what makes it funky and that's what makes it have a pocket."
Songfacts Interview with Nuno Bettencourt
Retrieved 15 July 2016
In the 2011 documentary ''Queen: Days of our Lives'', Queen's former manager Jim Beach described ''Hot Space'' as "a disaster really ..it didn't appeal to the hardcore Queen fans who would turn up to concerts with 'Disco Sucks' banners." After the conclusion of the Hot Space tour in late 1982, the band would rarely include songs from the album in their later live set-lists with only "Under Pressure" remaining as a staple until their final concerts in 1986.
Track listing
All lead vocals by Freddie Mercury unless noted.
Personnel
Track numbering refers to CD and digital releases of the album.
Queen
* Freddie Mercury – lead vocals , backing vocals , keyboards , drum machine , synth bass
*Brian May
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– electric guitar , backing vocals , co-lead vocals , acoustic guitar , drum machine , synth bass , keyboards
*Roger Taylor Roger Taylor may refer to:
*Roger Taylor (Queen drummer) (born 1949), drummer for Queen
*Roger Taylor (Duran Duran drummer) (born 1960), drummer for Duran Duran
*Roger Taylor (author), author of epic fantasy Hawklan series
*Roger Taylor (college pr ...
– acoustic and electronic drums , backing vocals , percussion , co-lead vocals , synthesizer , electric guitar , acoustic guitar
*John Deacon
John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is an English retired musician, best known for being the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. He wrote several songs for the group, including Top 10 hits " You're My Best Friend", "Another One Bite ...
– bass guitar , electric guitar , drum machine , synthesizer
Additional personnel
*David Bowie
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– lead vocals and synthesizer
*Arif Mardin
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– "hot and spacey" horn
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arrangement and production
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* Production as a stati ...
on "Staying Power"
*Reinhold Mack
Reinhold Mack (also known as Mack, born 25 August 1949) is a German record producer and engineer. Mack is best known for his collaborations with Electric Light Orchestra, Queen, and Sparks.
Biography Early life and education
Mack grew up in Mu ...
– production; synth bass
*Dino Solera – saxophones
* David Richards – piano
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
Bibliography
*
External links
Queen official website: Discography: Hot Space
includes lyrics of all non-bonus tracks except "Put Out the Fire" and "Under Pressure".
*Other lyrics at Queen official website
"Put Out the Fire"
(from '' Queen Rocks'')
"Under Pressure (Rah Mix)"
(from '' Greatest Hits III'')
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