February 23, 1980 –
The Queen’s song Crazy Little Thing Called Love hit the No. #1 spot on the Billboard Charts on this date.
Freddie Mercury acknowledged that perhaps his limited talent on the guitar helped shape the song: “‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ took me five or ten minutes. I did that on the guitar, which I can’t play for nuts, and in one way it was quite a good thing because I was restricted, knowing only a few chords. It’s a good discipline because I simply had to write within a small framework. I couldn’t work through too many chords and because of that restriction I wrote a good song, I think.“
The Haus of Dcaligari 