It’s not typical of my work, but that’s because nothing is typical of my work.” “The finished version sounded like the bathroom version. “Everyone loved it, so we recorded it,” Mercury went on. Listen to the best of Queen on Apple Music and Spotify. “We arranged at band rehearsals the following day with me trying to play rhythm guitar. The band’s frontman reportedly got out of the tub to go to his guitar and piano to lay down the melody. “I wrote the song languishing in my bath at the Munich Hilton,” Mercury said in The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, by Fred Bronson. It was a new triumph for Queen, whose previous best US showing had been the No.4 peak of the double-sided “We Will Rock You” and “We Are The Champions.” The new single went on to be certified gold in both the US and UK, as well as in Holland. It stayed there four weeks, before being succeeded by another British rock classic, Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick In The Wall.” In the States, “Crazy Little Thing” removed the Captain & Tennille’s “Do That To Me One More Time” from the No.1 spot.
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