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1979 single by Queen

"Crazy Little Matter Called Love"
Crazy little thing called love.jpg

Artwork for Great britain release

Single by Queen
from the anthology The Game
B-side
  • "We Will Rock You lot" (live) (U.k.)
  • "Spread Your Wings" (live) (US)
Released
  • 12 Oct 1979 (UK)[1]
  • 7 December 1979 (US)
Recorded June–July 1979
Studio Musicland (Munich, Germany)
Genre
  • Rockabilly[ii] [iii]
  • rock and roll[4]
Length 2:42
Label
  • EMI (UK)
  • Elektra (US)
Songwriter(southward) Freddie Mercury
Producer(southward)
  • Queen
  • Reinhold Mack
Queen United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland singles chronology
"Love of My Life"
(1979)
"Crazy Little Affair Chosen Love"
(1980)
"Save Me"
(1980)
Queen US singles chronology
"We Volition Rock Y'all"
(1979)
"Crazy Piffling Affair Called Love"
(1980)
"Play the Game"
(1980)
Sound sample
  • file
  • aid
Music video
"Crazy Little Thing Chosen Beloved" on YouTube

"Crazy Trivial Affair Called Dear" is a song by the British stone band Queen. Written by Freddie Mercury in 1979, the runway is included on their 1980 album The Game, and also appears on the band'south compilation album Greatest Hits in 1981. The song peaked at number two in the Great britain Singles Chart in 1979, becoming the grouping's first number-1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US in 1980,[5] remaining there for 4 sequent weeks.[6] [seven] It topped the Australian ARIA Charts for vii weeks.[eight] It was the band'southward final single release of the 1970s.

Having composed "Crazy Petty Thing Called Dearest" on guitar, Mercury played rhythm guitar while performing the song live, which was the beginning time he played guitar in concert with Queen.[9] Queen played the vocal live between 1979 and 1986, and a live performance of the vocal is recorded in the albums Queen Rock Montreal, Queen on Fire – Alive at the Basin, Alive at Wembley '86 and Hungarian Rhapsody: Queen Live in Budapest.[10] [eleven] Since its release, the song has been covered past a number of artists. The vocal was played live on 20 Apr 1992 during The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, performed past Robert Constitute with Queen.[12] The style of the song was described by author Karl Coryat every bit rockabilly in his 1999 volume titled The Bass Player Book.[thirteen]

Composition [edit]

As reported by Freddie Mercury in Melody Maker, 2 May 1981, he composed "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" on the guitar in merely 5 to ten minutes.[14]

'Crazy Little Thing Chosen Dearest' took me five or ten minutes. I did that on the guitar, which I can't play for nuts, and in 1 mode it was quite a good matter considering I was restricted, knowing only a few chords. It's a good discipline because I but had to write within a small framework. I couldn't work through too many chords and because of that brake I wrote a good song, I recall.

Freddie Mercury

The song was written past Mercury equally a tribute to his musical heroes Elvis Presley[15] and Sir Cliff Richard. Roger Taylor added in an interview that Mercury wrote it in just x minutes while lounging in a bath in the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich during one of their extensive Munich recording sessions.[16] Mercury took it to the studio soon afterward writing it and presented it to Taylor and John Deacon.[ix] [17] The iii of them, with their then new producer Reinhold Mack, recorded it at Musicland Studios in Munich. The entire song was reportedly recorded in less than half an 60 minutes (although Mack says it was six hours).[xviii] Having written "Crazy Lilliputian Affair Called Dear" on guitar and played an acoustic rhythm guitar on the record, for the first time ever Mercury played guitar in concerts, for case at Live Assistance at Wembley Stadium, London in 1985.[9] [xix] Billboard Magazine described Brian May'south guitar playing as being "stunning in its simplicity."[20] Cash Box called it a "hip shakin' rockabilly romp" and an "upbeat tune."[21]

May wanted to emulate Rick Nelson's and Presley's longtime guitarist James Burton, and at Macks'southward suggestion used a Fender Esquire rather than his regular Red Special for the recording session.[22]

Music video [edit]

The music video for the song was filmed at Trillion Studios on 21 September 1979 and directed by Dennis De Vallance involving iv dancers and a floor of hands. An alternate version was included on the Days of Our Lives DVD and Blu-ray releases.

Live performances [edit]

In the immediate aftermath of the single the ring embarked on a mini UK tour entitled the Crazy Bout.

Whenever the song was played alive, the ring added a solid rock ending that extended the under-iii-minute track to over v minutes, with May and Mercury providing additional guitars. An example of this is on the CD/DVD Set Alive at Wembley '86, where the song continues for 5 minutes.

On Sat, 13 July 1985, Queen performed the vocal for the Live Aid dual-venue benefit concert.

Single release [edit]

The "Crazy Little Matter Called Honey" unmarried hit number two in the UK Singles Chart in 1979, and became the first Usa number-1 hit for the band, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks. It was knocked out of the peak spot on this chart by Pinkish Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II".[6] [vii] The song likewise topped the Australian ARIA charts for vii consecutive weeks from one March to 12 Apr 1980.[8] The United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland release had "We Will Rock You (alive)" equally the b-side and America, Australia, Canada had "Spread Your Wings (live)".

Personnel [edit]

  • Freddie Mercury – pb and backing vocals, acoustic guitar, hand claps
  • Brian May – electric guitar, backing vocals, hand claps
  • Roger Taylor – drums, bankroll vocals, hand claps
  • John Deacon – bass guitar, mitt claps

Although Mercury would play an acoustic-electric twelve-string Ovation Pacemaker 1615 guitar and afterwards on an electric vi-string Fender Telecaster, both endemic by May, in the studio he recorded it with a six-string acoustic with external mics. Mercury besides played the original guitar solo on a version which has been lost.[23]

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Dwight Yoakam version [edit]

"Crazy Piffling Matter Called Love"
Dwight - Crazy Little Thing Called Love.jpg

Uk CD picture sleeve

Unmarried past Dwight Yoakam
from the anthology Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the xc'southward
B-side
  • "Let's Work Together"
  • "Doin' What I Did"
Released nineteen May 1999
Genre Country
Length two:22
Label Reprise
Songwriter(due south) Freddie Mercury
Producer(s) Pete Anderson
Dwight Yoakam singles chronology
"These Artillery"
(1998)
"Crazy Little Affair Chosen Love"
(1999)
"Thinking Almost Leaving"
(1999)

American country music vocaliser Dwight Yoakam included a comprehend of the song on his 1999 anthology Last Chance for a One thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam'south Greatest Hits from the 90's.[57] Yoakam's version was released equally a unmarried. Information technology debuted at number 65 on the The states Billboard "Hot Land Singles & Tracks" chart for the week of 1 May 1999, and peaked at number 12 on the US country singles charts that year. It was likewise used in a television commercial for clothing retailer Gap at the time of the album's release. The music video was directed by Yoakam. This version appears in the movie The Break-Up (2006), starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston.

Charts [edit]

Nautical chart (1999) Elevation
position
Canada Developed Contemporary (RPM)[58] 19
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[59] one
Britain Singles Chart 35
US Billboard Hot 100[60] 64
US Hot State Songs (Billboard)[61] 12
Twelvemonth-end chart (1999) Rank
Canada Country Tracks (RPM)[62] 22
US Country Songs (Billboard)[63] 64

See too [edit]

  • List of Billboard Hot 100 number-i singles of 1980

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External links [edit]

  • Official YouTube videos: original music video (VEVO) on YouTube, Alive at Wembley Stadium, Friday 11 July 1986 on YouTube, Queen + Paul Rodgers, Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert on YouTube (with Robert Plant)
  • Lyrics at Queen official website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Little_Thing_Called_Love

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