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 with Queen. It was the band's final single release of the 1970s. It topped the Australian ARIA Charts for seven weeks. The song peaked at number two in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, becoming the group's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US in 1980, remaining there for four consecutive weeks. 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. ' Crazy Little Thing Called Love' is a song by the British rock band Queen. I’m somewhat limited by the number of chords I know,” he shared in a 1980 interview with Circus.'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' on YouTube I wrote ‘Crazy Little Thing … ‘ on guitar and played rhythm on the record, and it works really well, because Brian gets to play all those lead guitar fills as well as his usual solo. The first couple of nights were nerve-wracking, but it was okay after that. 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. “’Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ took me five or 10 minutes.

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