Freddie Mercury wrote Elvis Presley tribute within the bathtub in 10 minutes

Freddie Mercury wrote his tribute tune to Elvis Presley within the bathtub in 10 minutes, his bandmates Roger Taylor and Brian Could have mentioned.

‘Loopy Little Factor Referred to as Love’ was launched in 1979, two years after the US star’s dying on the age of 42.

Through the newest episode of Queen The Best, which appears again on the band’s profession, Taylor and Could recalled the origins of ‘Loopy Little Factor Referred to as Love’ and its impression on the group.

Speaking about making an attempt to alter tact with their recording course of seven albums in, Could mentioned Queen “obtained into this relatively indulgent means of simply bowling into the studio with no concepts, or only a few concepts, and simply doing it from scratch”.

Taylor added: “The very first thing we did was ‘Loopy Little Factor…’, and Fred did write the tune within the bathtub in about 10 minutes.”

Talking about Mercury’s love of Presley, Could mentioned: “He was very keen on Elvis, and of Cliff, I’ve to say. Yeah, Freddie wrote it in a short time and rushed in and put it down with the boys. By the point I obtained there, it was nearly carried out.

“And I believe the sounds that [sound engineer Reinhold] Mack managed to get, these very elemental, very actual sounds, ambient sounds within the studio had an enormous contribution to make. It does sound very genuine, the whole lot about it’s kind of like authentic rock and roll sounding.”

‘Loopy Little Factor Referred to as Love’ went onto be Queen’s first Quantity One single on the Billboard Scorching 100, and reached Quantity Two on the Official UK Singles Chart.

Earlier this month, Could mentioned he thought Mercury would nonetheless be taking part in with Queen if he was alive. The band’s frontman died in 1991 from bronchial pneumonia ensuing from AIDS. “The humorous factor is I really feel increasingly that he’s type of with us in a means, perhaps I’m attending to be an outdated romantic, however Freddie is in my day day by day,” he added.