A three-way collaboration between Queen, David Bowie and Microsoft Corp. will mark World AIDS day, Dec. 1, 1999, with a global Internet-based AIDS fund-raising event.
Microsoft will host a free video download featuring Queen and David Bowie and will provide people with an opportunity to donate money to fight AIDS. The download will be available for two weeks at http://windowsmedia.microsoft.com/preview/queen, beginning Dec. 1, exclusively in Microsoft® Windows Media? format, providing industry-leading sound and video quality.
The WindowsMedia.com site will help educate visitors about the worldwide AIDS epidemic and give people the opportunity to contribute online to Queen’s Mercury Phoenix Trust charity, which raises funds to fight AIDS.
Microsoft will also make a contribution to the trust.
The free video download will feature the recent video of Queen and David Bowie together performing their classic collaboration, “Under Pressure.” Although Freddie Mercury and David Bowie never actually appeared on stage together, breakthrough video technology has brought these two great performers together for the first time using unique footage. The audio track to the video is a new 1999 “Rah mix” version that features fresh recording work by Queen; the track was remixed for the new album, “Queen + Greatest Hits III.” Already receiving major radio airplay, the track will be released as a single on Dec. 6 along with Queen’s song of the millennium, “Bohemian Rhapsody” and the perennial “Thank God It’s Christmas.”