Yoakam's version was released as a single, peaking at number 12 on the U.S. Dwight Yoakam version "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"įrom the album Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the 90'sĪmerican country music singer Dwight Yoakam included a cover of the song on his 1999 album Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the 90's. An example of this is on the CD/DVD Set Live At Wembley Stadium, where the song runs over six minutes. Because of this extended aspect, most fans prefer the live versions to the studio recording. Brian May added a long guitar solo, while Freddie Mercurycontinued on the rhythm guitar, Roger Taylor on drums, John Deacon on the bass guitar and either Morgan Fisher or Spike Edney playing piano. Whenever the song was played live, the band added a solid rock ending that extended the under-three-minute track to over five minutes.
Having written "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" on guitar and played an acoustic rhythm guitar on the record, for the first time ever Mercury played guitar in concerts, for example at Live Aid at Wembley Stadium, London in 1985. The entire song was reportedly recorded in less than half an hour (although Mack says it was six hours). The three of them, with their new producer Mack, recorded it at Musicland Studios in Munich. Mercury took it to the studio shortly after writing it and presented it to Taylor and John Deacon. Queen drummer Roger Taylor added in an interview that Mercury wrote it in 10 minutes while lounging in a bath in the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich during one of their extensive Munich recording sessions. The song was written by Mercury as a tribute to Elvis Presley. 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. 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' took me five or ten minutes. Īs reported by Freddie Mercury in Melody Maker,, he composed "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" on the guitar in just five to ten minutes. The style of the song was described by author Karl Coryat as rockabilly in his 1999 book titled The Bass Player Book. 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 and Queen at Wembley.
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. It topped the Australian ARIA Charts for seven weeks. on 23 February 1980, remaining there for four consecutive 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 U.S. Written by Freddie Mercury in 1979, the track is featured on their 1980 album The Game, and also appears on the band's compilation album, Greatest Hits.
" Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is a song by the rock band Queen.