DBWI: Freddie Mercury Dies of AIDS?

Mercury was one of the very lucky ones that didn't get the HIV virus at the there were no real decent treatments for the disease. I think that lucky break inspired a person he knew, Howard Ashman, to be a lot more careful with his lifestyle, and as such Ashman went onto a great career writing music for multiple Disney animated movies during the 1990's animation revival. Ashman recently won another Tony for Hamilton: An American Musical (he co-wrote the music with Lin-Manuel Miranda) and has started work with Miranda on a Disney-animated version of the stage show (it will be Disney's first PG-13 rated animated movie, though Ashman and Miranda will rewrite some of the lyrics to take out a lot of the swearing of the original musical lyrics). In fact, Ashman just asked Mercury to form a new band to perform the music for the movie.
 
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