While the Elvis tribute managed to reach No 2 back home in the UK.Įlvis Presley Easter Egg turned down for Freddie Mercury in Shazam Įlvis’ influence on Freddie Mercury and Queen according to Brian May įreddie Mercury TOPS Elvis and John Lennon in UK poll of dead stars Įarlier this year, Brian told .uk about Elvis’ influence on Freddie, Queen and himself. While Roger said: “We were still making the record, we hadn’t even nearly finished the album, and we were going out in Munich and somebody came up and said ‘Oh it’s gone to number one in America’, and we were going, ‘Yeah! More drinks!’”Īside from topping the US charts, Crazy Little Thing Called Love also held No 1 in Australia for an impressive seven weeks. “It does sound very authentic, everything about it is sort of like original rock and roll sounding.”īrian added: “That was the first number one across the board in America, Billboard, Cashbox and Record World I think.” “And I think the sounds that Mack managed to get, these very elemental, real, very real sounds, ambient sounds in the studio had a big contribution to make. By the time I got there it was almost done. Yeah, Freddie wrote it very quickly and rushed in and put it down with the boys. While Roger Taylor remembered: “The first thing we did was Crazy Little Thing, and Fred did write the song in the bath in about ten minutes.”īrian said of Freddie’s tribute to The King: “He was very fond of Elvis, and of Cliff I have to say, also. You know ‘What you got?’, ‘Well I dunno, I’ve got this?’” “And we heard there’s this great engineer called Mack, and we got into this rather, kind of indulgent way of just bowling into the studio with no ideas, or very few ideas, and just doing it from scratch. In 1979, after seven albums, Queen decided to change up the way they approached their studio recordings.īrian May shared: “We’d heard that there was this great studio called Musicland in Munich. While the video below includes a rare clip of the track being performed live in 1986.
CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE ORIGINAL CRACKED
This week’s episode of Queen The Greatest looks back at how Crazy Little Thing Called Love cracked America for the band. And the result was the No 1 hit Crazy Little Thing Called Love, which the Queen singer wrote in the bath in around 10 minutes. Two years later, Freddie Mercury decided to write a tribute song to The King. More infoĮlvis Presley tragically died at the age of just 42 in August 1977.
This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and to improve our understanding of you. Queen perform ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ in 1986