Who wrote Stone Cold Crazy?

Depending on the kind of Brian May recollection. Mostly, he's off by dates or stuff like that, not about tempi. If he says SCC was written in 1976, I don't believe him; if he says they never played it live, I don't believe him; if he says it was slower, I believe him unless there's stronger counterevidence (e.g. Roger's memory, which is not perfect but is positively eidetic compared to Brian's).

Regarding who wrote what, the recent DOOL documentary includes a bit with Freddie saying he wrote the bits for the others too, and there's also a lot to confirm that was the standard practice for the four of them. While that's obviously got exceptions (e.g. the Bo Rhap solo), most of the time, the person who wrote the song also wrote all parts for all instruments.

And in the new documentary Freddie Mercury Saved My Life, you have the answer and a slower acoustic Stone Cold Crazy!

According to Brian in the Freddie Saved My Life documentary, Freddie had come up with Stone Cold Crazy, but it was much slower. Then Brian quickened the tempo. Check out the documentary at around 16:39.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSuLhVFSQZM

"The whole thing about it being slower in the beginning was debunked by former Queen bass player Barry Mitchell, who confirmed it was always that speed. "

So now we have two versions of the truth. Brian May's version, and Barry Mitchell's. Wonder what really happened!

Hmmm....

[QUOTE] [b]noorie wrote:[/b]

So now we have two versions of the truth. Brian May's version, and Barry Mitchell's. Wonder what really happened![/QUOTE]

Maybe they are both right.
I think that it´s obvious that Brian is right because he even play the original riff on his guitar to make the point. If Barry Mitchell is right, then he was introduced to the song after Brian changed the riff and tempo. He may have never heard the original idea by Freddie and so thinks that the song was always the same.

Just because Freddie may have played it slowly on acoustic to Brian/Roger doesn't mean that's how it was always performed, for a start. Then there's the issue that you can't 100% believe anything Brian says.

But the thread is about who wrote it. Looks like Freddie's simple, slowish guitar part was bastardised and made into something utterly fucking ace :-)

The slower version was the one that predated Queen.

By the time the band formed and they re-arranged it, it became the version we know now.

Mike Grose ... Doug Bogie ... Barry Mitchell ... John Deacon.

Maybe SCC was slow when Queen was initially formed with Mike Gross, but evolved to being fast sometime before Barry Mitchell joined the group ???

Well then Mike Gross has a claim.. surely the joint writing credit is for arrangement rather than writing? Or we can just speculate. Which is 98% of this whole website.

Well Stone Cold Crazy inspired people after it, although they might be better off in Burger King if they have an IQ of 100+.

Hello mother fuckers I am a clone of Freddie Mercury and Michael Jackson and also others and here is my bass qualification from Rock School.

Yah Yah Yah
Graham