1 in the US, and also became their best-selling studio album in the US, with four million copies sold to date, tying with the sales for News of the World.

Notable songs on the album include the bass-driven "Another One Bites the Dust" and the rock and roll "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", both of which reached No.

Two remixes of the track were scheduled to feature on the cancelled BASIC Queen Bootlegs 1992 album.

It is credited as Queen's best selling single, having sold 7 million copies worldwide.

The song was released as a single in November 1980 and reached number 44 in the United States.

[10] "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" was written by Mercury while lounging in a bubble bath in the Bayerischer Hof Hotel in Munich, where Queen were staying during the making of The Game.

The song was only performed live in North and South America, and in Japan, during The Game and Hot Space Tours respectively.

In 1992, DJ Muggs remixed the track for inclusion on the later cancelled BASIC Queen Bootlegs compilation.

It has never been performed live by Queen, but has been by Guns N' Roses and by Brian May himself during the Another World tour in 1998.

[11] The song has also been on compilation albums Deep Cuts, Volume 2 (1977-1982) and Queen Forever.

May played most of the instruments on the track including acoustic and electric guitars, piano and synthesizer.

When live the song features a short piano entrance absent from the studio version.

The original photo (with Roger Taylor having folded arms and Brian May not having a hand resting upon his exposed hip) is shown in the article.

For Record Mirror, Robin Smith wrote of the album, "It's like winning the men's singles at Wimbledon.

"[20] Rolling Stone felt that it was "nice to hear a Queen album with songs, not 'anthems'," but opined that "these guys know how this music should sound and feel, but they can't bend enough to get with it.

"[21] The Washington Post gave a scathing review, writing: "After five years of unchallenging, dismal albums, this was supposed to be Queen's comeback.

"[22] Steve Taylor, writing for Smash Hits, was equally as dismissive, writing "sandwiched between two slabs of Queen's usual symphonic and/or choral pomp-rock [...] lies a filling of utterly unoriginal corn".

[26] Evan Sawdey of PopMatters called The Game a "regular ol' rock album".

[1] In 2008, Out ranked the album number 28 of 100 in a poll of "more than 100 actors, comedians, musicians, writers, critics, performance artists, label reps, and DJs, asking each to list the ten albums that left the most indelible impressions on their lives.

There was less guitar on that album, but that's really not going to be the same forever; that was just an experiment.All lead vocals by Freddie Mercury unless noted.