Quote related to 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love' from 'The Game'

I don't think I was even there! It always happens: if I go out for a couple of hours, they create something else. I came back and they'd already put down the backing track. Roger just had the live drums, Freddie had played acoustic guitar - cause that rhythm on there is Freddie, I don't think I played any of that. That was a good thing for Mack, who became our engineer for those couple of albums, and producer, well, co-producer, cause I guess we were always the producers, being big-headed as we are. I think Mack secretly had wanted to work with us for a long time, and he had all these things he wanted to try with us. And he was very good at getting drum sounds very quick, and the drum sound is very big in that particular… there was a drum which used to have mics inside and outside, so he would stick a few faders and the drums would sound crisp and big, without sounding washy, they just sounded great. So that was a bonus really. It was good, Mack, actually, I mean, he brought out some things, we were a bit set in our ways by that time, I think we thought there was one way of doing things. And Mack said - and he's a very dry German but he sounds English ‘cause he worked with Jeff Lynne for years, so he had a kind of Birmingham / German accent. Talking about the guitar, you know, I said, “Well, I can make my guitar sound like a Telecaster, like those old rock ‘n' roll records,” and he said “if you want it to sound like a Telecaster, play a Telecaster.” So he got me to do it, which is unusual. That was one of the few times I ever played something that wasn't my regular guitar, and it did work very well. I used Roger's Telecaster, one of his collection, he really collects extremely rare guitars, so I used one of those. And it just worked out, it sounded fine.

Brian May; In the Studio with Redbeard, 19th of June 1989