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Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love guitar cover video
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The Game (Deluxe Remastered Version) album cover
The Game (Deluxe Remastered Version)
1980 2:43
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About Crazy Little Thing Called Love

"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is a rockabilly-influenced track by Queen, written by Freddie Mercury in 1979 and released on the 1980 album The Game. Inspired by Elvis Presley's style, the song became Queen's first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single in the US, holding the top spot for four consecutive weeks. For electric guitar players, it offers a great introduction to vintage rockabilly rhythms, a memorable riff, and a punchy lead break rooted in classic 1950s rock and roll vocabulary.

  • Freddie Mercury wrote the song in just ten minutes while in the bathtub, aiming for a classic rockabilly feel.
  • The track reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and topped the Australian ARIA Charts for seven weeks.
  • Brian May's guitar work draws on 1950s rock and roll style, making it an ideal study piece for vintage electric guitar tones.

How to Play Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Tuning: Eb Standard · Key: D major · Tempo: 154 BPM

It is played in Eb standard, a half step down, so tune down before you start or every position and bend will sit a half step sharp against the recording. At 154 bpm it moves fast, so the real test is building picking stamina and keeping every note clean at speed.

Loop the hardest passage and creep the speed up from around 70 percent until it holds at 154 BPM.

Vox AC30
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Vox AC30

Brian May stacks Vox AC30s cranked to full volume, letting natural tube breakup and the Top Boost channel create the chimey, harmonically rich overdrive that defines Queen's sound. Driven hard by a treble booster rather than pedal distortion, these amps deliver the compressed, singing tone central to May's signature style.

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Boss DD-3 Digital Delay

May uses digital delay as a live equivalent to the tape echo (Echoplex) he favored in the studio, adding subtle spatial depth to his solos without cluttering his famously minimal effects chain. The DD-3 provides clean, repeating echoes that complement his vocal-like tone without compromising the directness of his treble booster-driven AC30 sound.

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