Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Queen

Queen’s tribute to Elvis Presley and the early rockabilly style. Surprisingly, it was written in only 10 minutes while Freddie was in the bathtub.

It topped the US charts in February 1980.

From the band’s only album to have reached #1 in the US – The Game – a well acclaimed pop-rock album that included another of their #1 hits, “Another One Bites the Dust”.

Unlike “Bohemian Rhapsody”, an epic composition, this, according to Freddie Mercury (here), was not.

“Crazy Little Thing Called Love” took me five or ten minutes. I did that on the guitar, which I can’t play for nuts, and in one way it was quite a good thing because I was restricted, knowing only a few chords. It’s a good discipline because I simply had to write within a small framework. I couldn’t work through too many chords and because of that restriction I wrote a good song, I think.