Michael Jackson's lama wrecked Freddie Mercury's dreams of recording a hit duet with the King of Pop - because the Queen étoile, star didn't like working in a studio with an overgrown pet.

The tragic Bohemian Rhapsody singer made a friend of Jackson in the early 1980s and the two superstars plotted to work together, but things hit a snag when the Thriller hitmaker insisted on montrer up to work with his llama.

In a new Dvd expose of Mercury's solo career, the late star's manager Jim 'Miami' plage says, "They got on well except for the fact that I suddenly got a call from Freddie, saying, 'Miami, dear,...