The featured image is of Queen in New Orleans promoting their 1978 album, Jazz. It was before my time here, so I just learned about this. In a word: Cool.

Freddie Mercury wrote Crazy Little Thing Called Love for Queen’s 1980 album, The Game. It was the band’s first number one hit stateside. It is the most covered number in the Queen canon.

We begin with the songwriter and his band:

Let’s juice things up with Juice Newton. In a word: Juicy.

Dwight Yoakam. Say no more.

Since Freddie’s passing in 1991, Queen have performed occasionally with some other singers. The best of the bunch was Paul Rodgers:

It’s diva time. Presenting Diana Ross with someone whose hair is bigger than hers, Brian May.

Brian Setzer gets his rockabilly on with this quirky Queen cover:

What would the Friday Cocktail Hour be without an instrumental version of the week’s tune? This time, the Vitamin String Quartet:

That’s it for this week. The tropics are still quiet. That calls for a toast. It’s what Brian May and Paul Rodgers would want. Never argue with them.