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 recorded ‘Under Pressure’ with Queen. You know, the song with the bum, bum, bum, ba, da, bum bassline, Freddie Mercury BE-BA-DAY’ing and Bowie stealing in at the end to send us all into a frothy-pop frenzy. We went to Mountain Studios in Montreux to learn how it was recorded in a haze of squabbles, cocaine and wine. Then did the same (we didn’t, we ate €15 euro ice cream) 

Just outside Queen’s Mountain Studios is a statue of Freddie Mercury. People from all around the world patiently queue to look like a big goof in front of him. Well we did anyway.

Inside the studio is a mixing desk where you can mess around with the sound levels on different Queen songs.