Once you here those first few notes, you know you are in for a good time as it has that old school rockabilly rhythm that you can’t wait to get to the sock hop and dance your ass off. Written by Freddie Mercury in 1979, the track is included on their 1980 album The Game, and also appears on the bands compilation album, Greatest Hits in 1981. The song is so simple, yet it is amazingly catchy and bores into your brain where it lives like a welcomed memory. 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' is a song by the British rock band Queen.
I couldn’t work through too many chords and because of that restriction I wrote a good song, I think. It’s a good discipline because I simply had to write within a small framework. 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. This thing called love I just cant handle it This thing called love I must get round to it I aint ready Crazy little thing called love. ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ took me five or ten minutes. In a Melody Maker interview back in 1980, Freddie had this to say about the song… About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. Freddie also plays rhythm guitar on the song as well which if I’m not mistaken is the first time he had ever done that for one of the band’s songs. Freddie wrote the song in only about 10 minutes and he wrote it playing a guitar. The song was written by Freddie Mercury and was a tribute to none other than Elvis Presley. The song went all the way to #1 on the US Billboard Charts and sold over a million copies making it a platinum selling single. It was Queen's first official No 1 single in America, which meant a huge deal to the British stars bearing in mind that Bohemian Rhapsody had. I did that on the guitar, which I cant play for nuts, and in one way it was quite a good thing because I was restricted, knowing only a few chords. In 1979, Mercury wrote Crazy Little Thing Called Love. For My Sunday Song #225, we are going to dive in to the Queen classic, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” off the band’s 1980 album, ‘The Game’. Freddie Mercury explained how this song was written, 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love took me five or ten minutes.
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