00:00The Real Reason
00:01Freddie Mercury's Collaboration with Michael Jackson
00:05Fell Apart
00:06According to Mercury's former bass player,
00:10the musical partnership wound up failing after Jackson,
00:13invited a llama into the recording studio.
00:17Few musicians have had as fundamental an impact
00:19on the world of pop culture as Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury,
00:24enjoying tremendous success in both their solo careers
00:27and in their individual bands, Mercury and Queen,
00:30Jackson in the Jackson 5.
00:33Mercury and Jackson forever changed the way audiences listened to pop music,
00:38shaping the industry as a whole in the latter days of the 20th century.
00:42While each musician partnered with many different collaborators over the years,
00:46the two musical legends never managed to sit down
00:49and record an entire project together.
00:52Rather, the closest the two ever came to working together
00:55took the form of three unsuccessful duets recorded in the mid-1980s.
01:00Why exactly was the partnership unsuccessful?
01:04According to Mercury's bass player on the album Mr. Bad Guy,
01:08the two icons apparently clashed over Jackson
01:11inviting his pet llama into the studio's recording booth.
01:14As reported in the New York Post,
01:17Mercury took a brief sabbatical from Queen in 1983
01:20to more fully explore his own artistic endeavors.
01:23After hitting it off with his prominent contemporary Jackson,
01:28Mercury and the King of Pop attempted to record
01:30three duets at Jackson's residence in Encino, California.
01:35While working on recordings for victory,
01:37state of shock,
01:38and there must be more to life than this though,
01:41Mercury allegedly started to express frustration
01:43at Jackson's strange antics,
01:45including an unwelcome intrusion from his beloved llama.
01:49I think the last straw was when Michael brought his pet llama into the studio,
01:53bassist Joe Burt told the Post.
01:56I think Freddy sort of took umbrage to that.
01:59Previously, the failed collaboration had been hinted at in 2012's documentary,
02:04Freddy Mercury, The Great Pretender.
02:06In it, Queen's manager, Jim Miami Beach,
02:09recalled a conversation he had with Mercury
02:11over his working relationship with Jackson.
02:15Mercury rang me and said,
02:16Miami, dear, can you get over here?
02:19You've got to get me out of here.
02:20I'm recording with a llama,
02:22Beach said in the documentary.
02:23Friendly,ăČro ŃĐ°ĐșăăĄ.
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02:33aimed at being on top 250
02:35down to the Ichiroammus
02:40to sizes of people.
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