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Music video. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" on YouTube. " Crazy Little Thing Called Love " is a song by the British rock band Queen. Written by Freddie Mercury in 1979, the track is included on their 1980 album The Game, and also appears on the band's compilation album Greatest Hits in 1981. The song peaked at number two in the UK Singles ...
Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative held on Saturday, 13 July 1985. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charity single "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in December 1984.
After the release of the single "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", the band decided to change the concert format they do in the previous tours, as a result, they revisited smaller venues [1] and adopted a new intro tape, consisting of a droning synthesizer leading into the thunder and lightning heard at the end of Dead On Time, from the previous tour. [2]
The performance at Live Aid at Wembley Stadium in 1985 is often regarded [7] as Queen's greatest single live performance. Their set lasted 21 minutes and consisted of a version of " Bohemian Rhapsody " (ballad section and guitar solo) slightly sped up in lyrics, " Radio Ga Ga ", a crowd singalong, " Hammer to Fall ", " Crazy Little Thing Called ...
The Magic Tour. The Magic Tour was a European concert tour by the British rock band Queen in 1986. The tour was in support of their latest album, A Kind of Magic, and featured 26 shows across Western Europe. In addition, the band performed one show behind the Iron Curtain in Hungary . The highlight of the tour was the two sold-out shows at ...
Released: 18 November 1980 (US) The Game is the eighth studio album by the British rock band Queen. It was released on 30 June 1980 by EMI Records in the UK and by Elektra Records in the US. The Game features a different sound from its predecessor, Jazz (1978). The Game was the first Queen album to use a synthesizer [ 6] (an Oberheim OB-X [ 7 ...
"A Thing Called Love" is a song written and originally recorded by Jerry Reed [2] in 1968. This song has been recorded by many artists, including Jimmy Dean, Elvis Presley, Glen Campbell, and Dave Dudley. In 1971, the song was recorded by Johnny Cash and it became a No. 1 country hit in Canada. The record was Cash's biggest hit in Europe ...
Love of My Life (Mercury) Another One Bites the Dust (John Deacon) Mustapha (Intro) (Mercury) Hammer to Fall (May) Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Mercury) Bohemian Rhapsody (Mercury) Radio Ga Ga (Roger Taylor) Encore: I Want to Break Free (Deacon) Jailhouse Rock (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller) We Will Rock You (May) We Are the Champions (Mercury ...