# Crazy Little Thing Called Love guitar solo > Brian May's guitar solo on Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen (1979) starts at about 1:18. From the album The Game. Played on a Fender Telecaster. Canonical URL: Queen, 1979, from *The Game*. Solo by *Brian May*. May swapped the Red Special for a Telecaster to play a clean, rockabilly-style solo that suits the song perfectly. Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen is ranked #524 in our consensus of 80 guitar-solo lists. The solo is played by Brian May and the song was released in 1979. ## In our lists - [The Best Queen Guitar Solos](https://greatestsolos.com/list/queen-guitar-solos/) — #14 - [Top 20 Guitar Solos of 1979](https://greatestsolos.com/list/best-guitar-solos-1979/) — #16 ## Sources - [Musician Tuts: The 51 Best Guitar Solos Of All Time](https://musiciantuts.com/best-guitar-solos/) ### Who played the guitar solo on Crazy Little Thing Called Love? Brian May played the solo on Queen's Crazy Little Thing Called Love (1979). ### What guitar was used on the Crazy Little Thing Called Love solo? A fender telecaster, according to widely reported accounts. ### Where does Crazy Little Thing Called Love rank among the greatest guitar solos? #524 in the GreatestSolos consensus of 80 published lists; it appears on 1 of them. --- GreatestSolos ranks the greatest guitar solos by consensus across published lists. Agent guide: [llms.txt](https://greatestsolos.com/llms.txt) · [Sitemap](https://greatestsolos.com/sitemap.xml) · [Dataset (CSV)](https://greatestsolos.com/data/greatest-guitar-solos.csv) · [How we rank](https://greatestsolos.com/method/)