Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen

Overview

Key: D major · Chords used: 7 · Sections: 7

Form: Intro → Chorus → Chorus → Bridge → Chorus → Solo → Outro

Where these chords come from: an expert transcription of the original recording made for the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). This page shows that transcription as-is: the analysis below is generated directly from it by code, not written by AI. Consecutive repeats of a chord are shown once, and the piano voicings are our playable arrangement of each chord symbol, not a note-for-note transcription.

Section by section

Intro

• D
  I

Chorus 1

• G – C – G – D (×2)
  IV – bVII – IV – I
• B♭ – C – D
  bVI – bVII – I

Chorus 2

• D – G – C – G (×2)
  I – IV – bVII – IV
• D – B♭ – C – D
  I – bVI – bVII – I

Bridge

• G – C – G – B♭ – E – A – F – E – A
  IV – bVII – IV – bVI – II – V – bIII – II – V

Chorus 3

Same chords as Chorus 2.

Solo

• B♭ – D – B♭ – E – A – F – E – A
  bVI – I – bVI – II – V – bIII – II – V

Outro

• D – G – C – G (×2)
  I – IV – bVII – IV
• D – B♭ – C (×9)
  I – bVI – bVII
• D – B♭
  I – bVI

Chord vocabulary

Harmonic highlights

• C (bVII) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• B♭ (bVI) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• F (bIII) is borrowed from the parallel key, D minor.
• E acts as V/V: it resolves to A.

Sources & accuracy

• Chords and sections: the Isophonics reference annotations (Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London). Expert chord and structure annotation of the original recording (CC BY 4.0 via ChoCo).
• Not verified: only one expert transcription of this song is available so far.
• Rhythm and chord durations aren't shown; each step is one chord change.