Got Me Under Pressure

Album: Eliminator (1983)
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  • In a 1985 interview with Spin magazine, ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons explained: "Everybody asks if 'Under Pressure' was about a girlfriend of mine. And if not, whose was it? Well, fortunately that kind of pressure we're not under. Maybe it's just because we got out of town on time. I just don't know."
  • This song was used in a 2008 Pennzoil commercial. >>>
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    Jeff - Boston, MA

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  • Jim Cushing from Baltimore Maryland I have always loved ZZ Top never did get to see them. I did see video of them crying at SRV's funeral in 1989. I wonder if anyone was there to cry at Dusty' s funeral
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