Who wrote the song "Crazy Little Thing Called Love"?

Freddie Mercury wrote the song "Crazy Little Thing Called Love."

Queen released the song as a single in 1979, and it later appeared on the band's 1980 album The Game. Mercury wrote it as a tribute to Elvis Presley and Cliff Richard, whose rock-and-roll and rockabilly styles influenced the song's stripped-down rhythm and vocal phrasing.

Mercury reportedly composed the song on guitar in about five to ten minutes while Queen were in Munich. The band recorded it at Musicland Studios with producer Reinhold Mack. Although Brian May played the electric-guitar solo, the writing credit belongs to Mercury alone. Mercury also played rhythm guitar on the recording and began playing guitar during live performances of the song.

The track became Queen's first U.S. number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, where it stayed at the top for four consecutive weeks in 1980. It reached number two in the United Kingdom. The song's rockabilly character sometimes leads listeners to attribute it to Brian May or to Queen collectively, but the credited songwriter is Freddie Mercury.