Mercury was also forced out of his comfort zone, as he played rhythm guitar on the album and during live performances. I tried it, and it sounded okay,” May shared. So I said, ‘Okay, Mack, if you want to set it up, I’ll play it.’ He put it through a Mesa/Boogie, which is an amplifier I don’t get on with at all it just doesn’t suit me. It basically doesn’t suit my style.’ But ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ was such a period piece, it seemed to need that period sound. I said, ‘I don’t want to play a Telecaster. “I used one of Roger’s really old, beat-up, natural-wood Telecaster. Mack was also instrumental in keeping the song true to the rock n’ roll vibe from the ’50s by convincing May to play the solo on a Fender Tele, instead of his usual Red Special. Sound engineer Reinhold Mack recalls getting the studio ready in a matter of minutes, where Mercury said to have them record the song asap, or else Brian May would “make things take a little longer.” The frontman feared that inspiration would soon leak out just as quickly as it came, and arranged for the band to hurry into the studio to record it. 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,” Mercury shared in a 1981 interview with Melody Maker. It proved to be a wise decision.īuy Queen’s News Of The World: 40th Anniversary Edition box set.“’Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ took me five or 10 minutes. Mercury also revealed in that volume that Queen’s American label, Elektra, were less than enthused about releasing “Crazy Little Thing” as a single, but their hand was forced when radio DJs started playing the import.
Listen to the best of Queen on Apple Music and Spotify. 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. “We arranged at band rehearsals the following day with me trying to play rhythm guitar. Freddie 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. The single was certified gold in both the US and UK, as well as in Holland. It did even better in Australia, with a seven-week reign in March and April and platinum certification. By the second half of February, “Love” was starting a five-week run at the top of that survey. It was the highest of no fewer than 15 new entries on the American chart in that week before Christmas, at No.58. Written solely by Freddie Mercury, the song became one of Queen’s biggest international singles to that point.
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