Nathaniel Murphy’s Crazy Arrangement of Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love“

Nathaniel snaps his way through Queen’s classic “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” with this crazy, not-so-little vintage 1960 Gibson ES-330T. What do you want to hear next? SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE CHICAGO MUSIC EXCHANGE!! More about “Crazy Little Thing Called Love“ - The song was written by Mercury as a tribute to his musical heroes Elvis Presley and Sir Cliff Richard. Roger Taylor added in an interview that Mercury wrote it in just 10 minutes while lounging in a bath in the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich during one of their extensive Munich recording sessions. Mercury took it to the studio shortly after writing it and presented it to Taylor and John Deacon. The three 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 hour (although Mack says it was six hours). Having written “Crazy Little Thing Called Love“ on guitar and played an acoustic rhythm guitar on the re
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