GIVE ME YOUR BODY
JUST GIVE ME,
YEAH,
YOUR BODY
GIVE ME, YEAH,
YOUR BODY
Hot Space
is the tenth
studio album
by the British
rock band
It was released on
May 25th 1982
by EMI Records
in the
United Kingdom
and by
Elektra Records
in the United States.
Marking a notable shift
in direction from
their earlier work,
they employed many
elements of
disco,
funk,
R&B,
dance,
pop
and
new wave music
on the album.
Combined with the
ongoing backlash
against disco music,
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",
Queen's collaboration
with
David Bowie,
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.
The album's second single,
"Body Language",
peaked at number 11
on the US charts.
Before 1979,
Queen had never used
synthesisers on their albums
Beginning with
The Game,
Queen began using
Oberheim OB-X 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 1970s 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"
Disliking the new sound,
Brian May 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
"[Prenter] wanted our music
to sound like you'd just
walked in a gay club..
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.
According to
Reinhold 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
Peter Hince wrote
"None of the band
cared for him [Prenter],
apart from Freddie",
with Hince
regarding Mercury's
favouring of Prenter
as an act of
"misguided loyalty"
TRACKLIST
Staying Power
Dancer
Back Chat
Body Language
Action This Day
Put Out The Fire
Life Is Real
(Song For Lennon)
Calling All Girls
Las Palabras De Amor
(The Words Of Love)
Cool Cat
Under Pressure
(w/David Bowie)
Body Language
(Remix)
Cool Cat
(Disco Expanded Version)
Staying Power
(remix)
Las Palabras De Amor
(Live Remix)
Life Is Real
(Unplugged Live Remix)
Cool Cat
(Rare Demo)
Calling All Girls
(Stripped Mix)
BONUS CD
Staying Power
(Live at Milton Keynes Bowl, June 1982)
Soul Brother
(B-side to Under Pressure)
Back Chat
(Single remix)
Action This Day
(Live at Seibu Lions Stadium in Tokorozawa, November 1982)
Calling All Girls
(Live at Seibu Lions Stadium in Tokorozawa, November 1982)
Thank God It's Christmas
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