10 Famous Rock Songs Written So Fast You Won't Believe
8. Crazy Little Thing Thing Called Love - Queen
How many great things have you done in the bath? No, not like that! Disgusting, the lot of you.
Anyway, there's a strong chance that none of you will have done what Freddie Mercury did whilst soaking in the tub one night in 1979. Whilst relaxing in the bath at the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, Mercury put together a little ditty as an homage to his musical hero Elvis Presley.
""Crazy Little Thing Called Love" took me five or ten minutes." he said in a 1981 interview. "I did that on the guitar, which I can't play for nuts."
Several Platinum records and a US number one single would disagree with you there, Fred.
Of course, the rest of the band embellished the song later, but it doesn't take a keen musical ear to figure out which part of the song Freddie initially came up with.
Roger Taylor later confirmed the bath part of the story, which adds yet another layer of mystique to the character of Mercury. Here was a man who had an operatic vocal range and could casually knock out a best-selling record whilst having a soak.
Way to make the rest of us feel inadequate.