Queen have hinted at a possible ABBA Voyage-style hologram show.
Original members Brian May and Roger Taylor spoke about this possibility in a recent interview with Big Issue, which saw the pair speak about the chances of an original Queen line up reunion, featuring late vocalist Freddie Mercury and bassist John Deacon as holograms. Deacon retired from the band in 1997.
Speaking about "reuniting" with the former bandmates with a hologram show, Brian May said: “Freddie is still alive through the music that we listen to all the time. In a sense, John is still with us in the same way, but now we have so many other opportunities".
The guitarist continued: “I mean things that are immersive, like The Sphere in Las Vegas, it will be possible to give people the experience very closely of what things were like for us when we were Freddie, John, Brian and Roger. And that really appeals to me".
Brian May went onto compare their recent live shows to hologram shows.
“In our Queen shows for a very long time I’ve been doing ‘Love of My Life’. And in the end, Freddie comes in and joins me as on video. It was just quite simply done, but it’s a way of involving Freddie, and I think we can basically take that a lot further", he said.
On a potential virtual style show, May added: “It wouldn’t be just playing old footage or whatever. it would be creating Queen as if we were creating it today. I’m very taken with the idea that we can be the original Queen again".
Elsewhere, drummer Roger Taylor went on to reveal that while he "had a good time" and "enjoyed" the ABBA-Voyage show of 2022, he left the show with mixed feelings: “I didn’t find the actual projections that convincing. I do think technology now has come so much further since the ABBA show started, I think a lot more can be done".
Back in September, Brian May had also teased the possibility of a huge Queen residency at Las Vegas' Sphere. More on this from Nova here.
