Cool Cat (Queen) cover

"Cool Cat", written by Freddie Mercury and John Deacon appeared on Queen's 1982 tenth studio album Hot Space. It originally featured David Bowie on backing vocals and a few lines of spoken word to a rhythm during the middle eight. According to Mercury in a 1982 TV interview, Bowie was unhappy with the results and requested that his vocals be removed days before its parent album was slated to be released. With the exception of the electric piano (which was played by Mercury), all the instruments are played by Deacon, including guitars, synths and a drum machine. On the album version, Mercury sings the entire song in falsetto. The alternate take with Bowie's vocals still intact is widely available on various bootleg recordings and surfaces from an early 1982 vinyl Hot Space test pressing from the US. Deacon can be heard using the slap bass technique throughout the track. This song in 2023 has been used in an Amazon Prime commercial featuring a young woman who among other things has a bobblehead of Mercury and buys a jacket on Prime similar to the one Mercury on the bobblehead is wearing.