Tonight’s mystery band had a hit that was written in tribute to Elvis. Can you guess the song or band?

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The song, now that you mention it sounds to me like somethnig Elvis might have recorded himself, it's ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’. Written by Freddie Mercury in about 10 minutes while in a hotel in Munich, Freddie told Melody Maker back in 1981:

'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.

It was Queen drummer Roger Taylor in a separate interview that said Freddie had written the song as an Elvis tribute.

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