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From the album The Game,
Crazy Little Thing Called Love was a
#1 Pop hit for Queen in 1980.
It was also a
#12 hit for Dwight Yoakam on Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Greatest Hits from the 90's in 1999.
Songwriter:
Freddie Mercury
J's Journal:
David had already been anointed king by the Prophet Samuel. There was just one problem. Saul, the last guy anointed king by Samuel, was still in power. And King Saul was out to make sure it stayed that way. He pursued David all over the place. Things got so bad that David tried to hide out with the enemy -- the Philistines of Gath. Yes, the very same Philistines whom he had defeated in famous battle with Goliath of Gath.
The Philistines of Gath, led by King Achish, were suspicious, so David had to think fast. 1 Samuel 21:13 tells what David did next: "So he pretended to be insane in their presence; and while he was in their hands he acted like a madman, making marks on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard."
The ruse worked. "Achish said to his servants, "Look at the man! He is insane! Why bring him to me? Am I so short of madmen that you have to bring this fellow here to carry on like this in front of me? Must this man come into my house?" (1 Samuel 21:14-15).
That's why we call David the "crazy little king God loves." By the way, Achish was the crazy one. After all that, he later took David in (1 Samuel 27-29) and unwittingly did a lot of harm to his own people.
Stats:
Genre: Classic Rock
Length: 2:40
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