Freddie Mercury wrote Crazy Little Thing Called Love in 1979. As reported by Mercury in Melody Maker, May 2, 1981, Mercury composed "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" on the guitar in just five to ten minutes. Freddie Mercury | Steve Jennings/WireImage. I have an article that is about this that is on Wikipedia. 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." I've always know Crazy little thing called love to be a old song and never even realized Queen sang it. Written by Freddie Mercury while in the bath! People often mistake it for Elvis because of the style of the song and well as Mercury's vocie when he sings According to Roger Taylor, Freddie wrote this song in his bathtub during a downtime. Freddie Mercury explained how this song was written, "'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' took me five or ten minutes. Hello I don't know a lot about musical history myself but understand these arguments come up a lot of the time. The version on your CD is most likely by an impersonator, or digitally created (less likely IMHO, but you never know). Needless to say I nearly cried at the horrible notion. The internet is full of images and videos connecting Elvis Presley with the song A Crazy Little Thing Called Love. I don't think he wrote this in a bath. The song belongs to another rock legend, Freddie Mercury. * Fred wrote it on upright piano. Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is a song by the British rock band Queen. Freddie provided him with some pension-money this way, as he donated all royalties to the bank-account of the "keep Elvis alive foundation" and Elvis has a chipcard to this account. An even more likely scenario. Crazy Little Thing Called Love est une chanson du groupe britannique Queen, sortie en single en 1979. He did write it on tour in Germany, but I think it was over drinks with May and Taylor. So when someone asked me who's song it was we ended up in a argument about its origins. I've always know Crazy little thing called love to be a … Freddie spent a mere 5–10 minutes coming up with ideas that would become the song “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” while in the bath. Freddie Mercury explained how this song was written, "'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' took me five or ten minutes. * Elvis wrote it (he was already dead and any way, he was a performer, not a songwriter, unlike Freddie who was both). I should add this stuff to my website… for some reason, I feel my best stuff goes always to on-line discussions while what I keep in ‘Bechstein Debauchery’ is way too basic and ‘cold’, for lack of a better word. Freddie acknowledged that perhaps his limited talent on the guitar helped shape the song: "'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' took me five or ten minutes. 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. Freddie Mercury was one of the biggest musicians in the world in the 1970s and ’80s, but one person could still boss him around: Mary Austin, his one-time fiancée. The song was written by the lead singer of Queen-Freddie Mercury during their recording sessions in Munich. Other accounts say that he wrote it while lounging in a bubble bath in the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich during one of … 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." And despite A Crazy Little Thing Called … It was a tribute to Elvis.. Écrite par Freddie Mercury, elle a atteint la première place du Billboard Hot 100 américain et la seconde du UK Singles Chart britannique. There was a CD where a person with a voice similar to Elvi's covered some songs like Crazy Little Thing Called Love and Candle In The Wind.