Sir Brian May is “very taken” with the idea of a Queen hologram show.
The 78-year-old guitarist currently performs in the band with original drummer Roger Taylor and singer Adam Lambert, but he admitted the thought of getting the full band – including late front man Freddie Mercury and bassist John Deacon, who retired in 1997 – together again in some form “really appeals” to him.
He told Big Issue: “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 We Will Rock You hitmaker 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.
“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,” Sir Brian May further mentioned.
Of a possible Queen hologram-type show, he 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.”
