Freddie Mercury did not die. Having lost loads of weight on a celebrity fad diet, he was shocked when twice as much went back on. Knowing the end of his career was thus looming he pretended to be gay, faked an AIDS related death, and reinvented himself as Saddam Hussein, cheeky chirpy oppressor of the Iraqi masses.
Peter Stringfellow pulled off a similar stunt and became Colonel Gadafi, but that backfired when Jeremy Corbyn described him as a "friend" and the oppressed population rose and murdered gum in disgust.