![]() “Crazy” paved the way for a second Hot 100 No. In a rare instance, he composed the tune on guitar, which he “couldn’t play for nuts … I couldn’t work through too many chords and, because of that restriction, I wrote a good song, I think.” ![]() In 1981, Mercury told Melody Maker magazine that he needed only “five or 10 minutes” to write “Crazy” in a bathtub in Munich. The song was “Freddie’s tribute to Elvis,” May told U.K. “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” was a departure from the band’s trademark swagger, a rockabilly-style number in which Mercury crooned over an acoustic guitar. 4-peaking “We Will Rock You”/”We Are the Champions” and the positively baroque “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which hit No. The British quartet - Freddie Mercury, then 33 Brian May, 32 Roger Taylor, 30 and John Deacon, 28 - claimed hit albums in the 1970s with a blend of bold arena rock anthems, including 1978’s No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 single, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” which crowned the chart on Feb. ![]() QUEEN CHANNELED ELVIS PRESLEY to earn its first No.
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