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"&lt;p&gt;Queen has always ruled by sound instead of soul, and Brian May&amp;apos;s orchestral guitar creations are what captured &amp;#x2014; and has kept &amp;#x2014; the group&amp;apos;s hard-rock following. But on &lt;em&gt;Hot Space&lt;/em&gt;, with the John Deacon/Roger Taylor rhythm section continuing to write funky songs and with a vocal contribution from David Bowie, Queen offers a bit more than bluster.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Back Chat&amp;quot; is a hot rock-funk tune, with guitar tracks as slick as an icy dance floor. An elastic beat puts some spring into a fine rocker, &amp;quot;Calling All Girls,&amp;quot; while Freddie Mercury&amp;apos;s Mick Jagger-like falsetto on &amp;quot;Cool Cat&amp;quot; takes the band as close to a street corner as it&amp;apos;ll ever get. Shortly before &lt;em&gt;Hot Space&lt;/em&gt;&amp;apos;s release, Bowie removed his vocals from &amp;quot;Cool Cat&amp;quot; (Billy Squier was a last-minute substitute), but he remains front and center on &amp;quot;Under Pressure,&amp;quot; a number on which Mercury manages to ape both Hall &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; Oates, while making Bowie sound positively soulful.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;The rest of &lt;em&gt;Hot Space&lt;/em&gt; is, at best, routinely competent and, at times, downright offensive. &amp;quot;Give me your body/Don&amp;apos;t talk,&amp;quot; sings Mercury in &amp;quot;Body Language,&amp;quot; a piece of funk that isn&amp;apos;t fun. For unsurpassed solipsism, however, he offers &amp;quot;Life Is Real (Song for Lennon)&amp;quot;: &amp;quot;Torsos in my closet/Shadows from my past/Life is real.&amp;quot; As Mercury slips into a breathless, Plastic Ono-sounding &amp;quot;real,&amp;quot; one is grateful that soul is still something money can&amp;apos;t buy.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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