He later claimed that it took him between. “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” is on the Queen album The Game, which can be bought here. Mercury wrote Crazy Little Thing Called Love while taking a bubble bath at the Hilton in Munich, where Queen were recording the 1980 album The Game.
Fred had this knack of knowing a great pop song.” “He emerged, wrapped in a towel, I handed him the guitar and he worked out the chords there and then. “The idea for the song came to him while he was in the bath,” he said. Peter Hince, head of Queen’s road crew, confirmed the song’s origins in a 2009 interview with Mojo. It’s not typical of my work, but that’s because nothing is typical of my work.” “The finished version sounded like the bathroom version. Distributor: Sahamongkol International and Work Point Language: Thai Country: Thailand. “Everyone loved it, so we recorded it,” Mercury went on. “We arranged at band rehearsals the following day with me trying to play rhythm guitar. The band’s frontman reportedly got out of the tub to go to his guitar and piano to lay down the melody.
“I wrote the song languishing in my bath at the Munich Hilton,” Mercury said in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, by Fred Bronson. It was a new triumph for Queen, whose previous best US showing had been the No.4 peak of the double-sided “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions.” The new single went on to be certified gold in both the US and UK, as well as in Holland. It stayed there four weeks, before being succeeded by another British rock classic, Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick In The Wall.” The late Freddie Mercury (real name, Fred Bulsara) was a man of.
there might be a song with the same name but the lyric will be different. Crazy Little Thing Called Love was Number One for four weeks starting February 23, 1980. In the States, “Crazy Little Thing” removed the Captain & Tennille’s “Do That To Me One More Time” from the No.1 spot. me: Freddie Mercury wrote Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Freddie Mercury.