Lisa Marie Presley gave Freddie Mercury a piece of Elvis history

Like many classic rock legends, Freddie Mercury grew up with The Beatles and Elvis Presley. The Queen singer was a huge Elvis fan, and Brian May once told Express.co.uk: “He was one of Freddie’s great heroes.” When the King died in 1977, she wrote a tribute song to him that became Crazy Little Thing Called Love. Freddie composed the song a couple of years after Elvis’s death, when he met the King’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley.

Incredibly, Freddie wrote Crazy Little Thing Called Love in minutes on guitar while lounging in a bathroom at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich.

According to Melody Maker, the Queen singer -who died in 1991- said: “Crazy Little Thing Called Love took me five or ten minutes. I did that on guitar, which I can’t play for nuts, and in a way it was a pretty good thing because I was restricted, knowing only a few chords. It’s a good discipline because I just had to write within a small frame. I couldn’t work with too many chords and I think because of that restriction I wrote a good song.” It was around this time that she met Lisa Marie.

In the interview, Lisa Marie, who died a couple of weeks ago at age 54, said: “I remember taking Freddie Mercury a scarf from my dad and giving it to him after the show. I loved. I loved the theatrics. I loved Freddy. I thought Queen was amazing.”