The Works (Queen album) 19 November 1984, and promotional copies were indeed pressed ("QUEEN 5") and sent out (b/w "Keep Passing the Open Windows"), but the band opted for a Christmas single ("Thank God It's Christmas"). The fifth track on "The Works", "Machines (Or 'Back to Humans')", came about as an idea by Taylor, and May collaborated with him and finished it. Producer Reinhold Mack programmed the synth-"demolition" using a Fairlight CMI II Sampler, and the song is sung as a duet between a double-tracked Mercury (singing in harmony with himself), and a robotic Taylor (using a Roland VP330 Vocoder). The instrumental remix of
The Junky's Christmas Ass Annie" serves as the narration of the film, while Burroughs appears in live-action footage at the beginning and end of the film. "The "Priest" they called him" is the spoken word version of The Junky's Christmas done by William S. Burroughs over a guitar track by Kurt Cobain. The Junky's Christmas The Junky's Christmas is a short story by William S. Burroughs. It originally appears in the 1989 collection "Interzone" and on the 1993 album "Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales". It was later adapted into short claymation film and a spoken word version was performed through a collaboration