Freddie Mercury Was No Fan Of Bubbles The Chimp

We almost had a Freddie Mercury/Michael Jackson duet, but monkey business got in the way...literally.

London's Daily Mail is reporting Mercury stormed out of the studio where the duo was supposed to record "There Must Be More To Life Than This" because Jackson brought his chimp Bubbles with him.

“‘I’m not performing with a f–king chimp sitting next to me each night,’” Mercury exploded, according to business journalist David Wigg. “Freddie got very angry because Michael made Bubbles sit between them and would turn to the chimp between takes and ask, `Don’t you think that was lovely?’ or, `Do you think we should do that again?'"

Mercury stormed out of the studio because he couldn’t handle Bubbles being there, journalist David Wigg writes in a new book.

After the Queen frontman got fed up, he reportedly called his manager and said "get me out of this zoo." He flew to London and left the track unfinished.