{"id":914,"date":"2026-03-08T20:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=914"},"modified":"2026-03-08T20:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T20:33:24","slug":"1979-rock-classic-was-a-no-1-hit-46-years-ago-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parkmania.pl\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"1979 rock classic was a No. 1 hit 46 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Queen<\/strong>&#8216;s beloved 1979 song, &#8220;Crazy Little Thing Called Love,&#8221; off their eighth studio album, <em style=\"text-align: justify\">The Game<\/em>, became a number 1 hit 46 years ago. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The track, written by Queen&#8217;s frontman and vocalist, the late<strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Freddie Mercury<\/strong>, secured the number one spot on Billboard&#8217;s Top 100 on March 8, 1980. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a 1984 interview,Mercury, who died in 1991 at the age of 45, shared that the idea for the song came to him while he was taking a bath. He recalled asking his manager,<strong style=\"text-align: justify\"> Paul Prenter<\/strong>, to hand him an acoustic guitar to bring the song to fruition while he remained in the bathtub. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;I was in a bath and then suddenly I had an idea, I called up Paul, and I said just get me in with a guitar, just an acoustic just in the bath,&#8221; said Mercury in the 1984 interview. &#8220;And I was just in the bath, because I was restricted in the bath, I could only play three chords. So I was limited, and I came up with &#8216;Crazy Little Thing.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a 2011 interview with Absolute Radio, Queen&#8217;s guitarist,<strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Brian May<\/strong>, said Mercury was inspired by the music of <strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Elvis Presley<\/strong> while writing &#8220;Crazy Little Thing Called Love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;It&#8217;s Freddie&#8217;s tribute to Elvis in a way. He was very fond of Elvis,&#8221; explained May in the Absolute Radio interview. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also noted that &#8220;Freddie wrote it very quickly&#8221; and went to the studio to record most of the song with his Queen bandmates, which included <strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Roger Taylor <\/strong>and\u00a0<strong style=\"text-align: justify\">John Deacon<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;By the time I got in there, it was almost done,&#8221; recalled May. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He also attributed the song&#8217;s authentic sound to the band&#8217;s producer and engineer, <strong style=\"text-align: justify\">Reinhold Mack<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;I think the sounds that Mack managed to get, these very elemental, very real sounds, real ambient sounds, had a real big contribution to make. It does sound very authentic. Everything about it is very original rock-and-roll. Very &#8217;70s,&#8221; said the musician, now 78, in the 2011 interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queen&#8216;s beloved 1979 song, &#8220;Crazy Little Thing Called Love,&#8221; off their eighth studio album, The Game, became a number 1 hit 46 years ago. 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