QUEEN Crazy Little Thing Called Love LP vinyl album, 1984 Original EMI record made in Germany !! record label number 060-20 31446 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 Chart in 1979 and became the group's first number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US in 1980,[6] remaining there for four consecutive weeks.[7][8] It topped the Australian ARIA Charts for seven weeks.[9] It was the band's final single release of the 1970s.