“Cool Cat” is definitely a deep cut from Queen’s repertoire, hailing from the 1982 album “Hot Space,” which also included the famous song “Under Pressure.” Originally, David Bowie was part of “Cool Cat,” but he requested his voice be removed from the song before the album was released. In a 1982 interview with International Musician and Recording World, lead guitarist Brian May explained, “David just did a backing track. I don’t think anyone thought any more about it, except that it was a nice ornamentation. We just sent him a courtesy note telling him that we had used it and he said, ‘I want it taken off, because I’m not satisfied with it.’ Unfortunately, he didn’t tell us until about a day before the album was supposed to be released, so it really set us back. It delayed the album’s release.”
Of course, using a Queen song for a commercial about empowerment is definitely a smart choice, and this fact doesn’t seem like it was lost on the advertisement’s director, Olivia Wilde. The “‘Tache” commercial is part of Amazon’s initiative to highlight how their service Amazon Prime makes dealing with the world easier and considering the results for the aforementioned young woman, it seems like Amazon Prime is a great place to get all sorts of things — and also for listening to Queen albums.
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