Crazy Little Thing Called Love, cover Freddie Mercury by JP

[Jean Pierre]

It's maybe a bit daring for me to do a Freddie Mercury cover   but I loved the video clip of this song where we see Freddie Mercury with a rocker look (like Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent or Vince Taylor) riding a motorbike with a pretty girl in a garter belt (it doesn't look like a Noel cliché at all!)
A song recorded in 1979, that I didn't know and that I discovered as usual while surfing on You tube (covered by Josh Turner)

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Happy Christmas to all

acoustic twelve string guitar
pseudo telecaster Harley Benton
pseudo precision bass Harley Benton
drums MT Oower Drum Kit plug ins instrument

[Farrell Jackson]

I've always liked this Queen song. It was a bit off the normal path for them and Freddie. You did a cool cover of it JP and you've included all the vocal details of the original. Well done on all those tricky backing vocals!

[Ted]

Daring is right!

You've added some twists here – not the least of twists is the decision to try this in straight time. It's almost like a science experiment. What happens if you remove the swing from this song? Now we know.

Joyeux Nöel a toi!

[Zoltan]

Yeah! JP did a straight version of this song.

It's wicked and wild. Cool beans

[Jean Pierre]

thank you guys
Farrell said

It was a bit off the normal path for them and Freddie.

Indeed. According to wikipedia,The song, written in a very rockabilly style and sung in the manner of Elvis Presley, was inspired to Freddie Mercury while he was taking his bath5 in a hotel in Munich, where Queen was recording at Musicland Studios. Once at the studios, where John Deacon and Roger Taylor were, they recorded the song in a few hours.

Je suis dans une petite periode rock/rockabilly après je vais essayer Lay Down Sally     

[Rene Asologuitar]

Simply a beauty!!!
This timeless classic is so loved, and your rendition is precious!
Great job on this production, Jean!
Thanks again!
Rene

[StephenM]

DES TORSES ? oui... et des CRIS

tordre et crier,,, c'est bon... Je me tord et crie en même temps...

J'adore ta basse déformée folle ou quoi que ce soit d'autre...

tu es cool JP... cool...


TWISTS? yes... and SHOUTS

twist and shout,,, this is good... I twist to it and shout at the same time...

love your crazy distorted bass or whatever that is...

you are cool JP...cool...

[Mike_S]

Yeah this rocks... this is louder than usual for you JP. But hell yeah this is a whole lotta fun.

Happy Christmas!

Mike

[Jean Pierre]

Thanks guys for your comments which I appreciate

Rockabilly is a special genre and this song is not at all in the style of other Freddie Mercury productions

For me in these covers in English with a very fast beat, the biggest difficulty...it is the pronunciation (which must make you smile), my level in English is very weak my knowledge of this language is school and I did not often have the occasion to practise...except during one month of training in a hospital in Kathmandu, in Nepal where all the Nepalese spoke English...but with undoubtedly a "Nepalese" accent then with my "French" accent one managed to understand oneself

Oh yes, another time during my mission in Gaza where I was rooming together with an Australian surgeon and I couldn't understand anything when he was talking to me...but Australians have a very particular accent

so bear with my accent but there are many songs I like that would be unbelievable to sing in French (I can't imagine "two of us" by the Beatles sung in French

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[StephenM]

I love the accents JP... it makes it better... no apologies needed for that.