Facts About Freddie Mercury And His Impact On More Than Just Queen

Crazy Little Thing Called Love

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Soon after he checked into the Bayerischer Hof hotel and stepping into the bathtub, a tongue-in-cheek melody came straight to his mind. Mercury soon called for assistant Peter Hince to hand him a guitar, then he wrapped a towel around his waist and began to bash out the song.

The song Mercury had come up with scrubbing in the tub was the single “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”. It didn’t even take him 20 minutes to write the entire song and the track was released as a pre-album single in the fall of 1980. It didn’t take long for the song to peak a Number One across the globe.