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Robert Plant & Brian May
Crazy Little Thing Called Love |
Good Sunday my friends. Freddie Mercury left us way to soon but in his wake is a catalog of songs that few other musicians can claim to have matched. One of those musicians might be singer Robert Plant formerly of Led Zeppelin. Plant went on to have an incredible post Zep career with charting hits like
Rockin' at Midnight &
Sea Of Love with the Honeydrippers. His renditions of these classic hit songs made him the natural choice to sing
Crazy Little Thing Called Love at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in April of '92.
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| Queen during The Game album era |
Freddie's birthday is September fifth and this coming Thursday we will celebrate that day together here at
Off The Charts Daily Dose of Rock & Roll. In the meantime please enjoy Robert Plant and Queen performing
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
I once heard that this song was written for Elvis and he turned it down. And that's why Freddie sang it the "Elvisy" way he did. Could be a ghost story but it sounds like it could be true.
ReplyDeleteHi Ron,
ReplyDeleteI had completely forgotten that story until you jogged my memory. It turns out that Freddie wrote it as a tribute to The King about two years after he passed away. The song was recorded in the Elvis rockablilly style purposefully. Thanks for reading and writing to me!!!
J