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In 1981, David Bowie and the band Queen came together to record the eternal anthem Under Pressure. Most will recognize the melody because of later musical samplings from a human named Vanilla Ice, but the original is a masterpiece of rocker vulnerability and not recycled beats that “wax chumps like candles.”

Bowie opens the song with:

Pressure pushing down on me

Pressing down on you, no man ask for

Under pressure that burns a building down

Splits a family in two

Puts people on streets

I like to imagine a young Don Brown (still mustachioed of course) listening to this classic while drawing up blitz packages in the infant stages of his coaching career.