Some songs take time to take shape. Many songwriters and musicians will return to a song in progressing days, weeks, or even years later, tweaking it until it’s just right. But others come together quickly after inspiration strikes. And in the case of one classic Queen song, that inspiration hit frontman Freddie Mercury while he was taking a bath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Queen was in Germany recording their album The Game<\/em>, Mercury was relaxing in the bath when “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”<\/a> came to him. He wrote the song in less than 10 minutes. He explained the process in a 1981 interview with Melody Make<\/em>r<\/a>. Mercury noted that “‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ took me five or ten minutes. 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. It’s a good discipline because I simply had to write within a small framework. I couldn’t work through too many chords and because of that restriction I wrote a good song, I think.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cCrazy Little Thing Called Love\u201d Was a Fast Hit for Queen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n