May quickly laid down his tasty lead guitar break, but without his usual homemade guitar - he used an old Telecaster to get that clean, '50s rockabilly feel. Guitarist Brian May has said in interviews that he arrived at the sessions for "Crazy" late, the song was almost completed (with Mercury supplying rhythm guitar on the track). When writing the song, Mercury was hit with inspiration at a peculiar moment - in the book Queen: A Visual Documentary by Ken Dean, Mercury was quoted as saying "I wrote 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' in the bath," while staying at a hotel. The album touched upon many different musical styles, but perhaps the most surprising was the rockabilly tribute "Crazy Little Thing Called Love." The song was penned entirely by Freddie Mercury, but since it sounded so close to Elvis Presley's classic recordings, it led many people to incorrectly assume that it was an Elvis cover. The style of the song was described by author Karl Coryat as rockabilly in his 1999 book titled The Bass Player Book.Although Queen was one of the world's biggest rock bands by the dawn of the '80s, they were also often targeted by the young punk movement as being "dinosaurs." But just as everyone thought they had Freddie Mercury and company figured out, they issued one of their most musically varied (and best) albums, 1980's The Game.
The song was played live on 20 April 1992 during The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, performed by Robert Plant with Queen. Since its release, the song has been covered by a number of artists. Queen played the song live between 19, and a live performance of the song is recorded in the albums Queen Rock Montreal, Queen on Fire – Live at the Bowl, Live at Wembley '86 and Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live in Budapest. Having composed "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" on guitar, Mercury played rhythm guitar while performing the song live, which was the first time he played guitar in concert with Queen.
It topped the Australian ARIA Charts for seven weeks. The song peaked at number two in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, and became the group's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US in 1980, remaining there for four consecutive weeks. Written by Freddie Mercury in 1979, the track is included on their 1980 album The Game, and also appears on the band's compilation album, Greatest Hits in 1981. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is a song by the British rock band Queen.
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