George Michael hologram ruled out

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George Michaelโ€˜s ex-manager says a hologram tour will never happen.

David Austin has revealed there were talks of using a hologram for part of the late music legendโ€™s performance of โ€˜Fastloveโ€™ at the legendary Royal Albert Hall, but the plans were scrapped because they didnโ€™t feel the technology could do the Wham! star justice.

Speaking at a screening of the new documentary film โ€˜Freedom Uncutโ€™ at Soho House in London on Monday (13.06.22), David responded when asked if itโ€™s a possibility: โ€œNever. A few years ago, way before all that started happening while George was with us, we were thinking about doing something at the Royal Albert Hall.

So around the release of โ€˜Listen Without Prejudiceโ€™ [anniversary set] that we initially made this film for, we were going to do a live event, it was going to be orchestral or something like that, we were trying to work out how we could do this.

โ€œWe had an idea that in the middle of โ€˜Fastloveโ€™, that bit where the rain comes down, we were going to see if we could do a hologram idea in the middle of the RAH which we thought would blow people away.

โ€œWe went around and had all these people sort of courting me โ€“ they did Tupac , they did this, they did that. I went to look at a load of them and they were s***. They were really, really poor. There were some people who were ahead of the game with it, some who werenโ€™t but it just didnโ€™t work.โ€

ABBA recently opened their own arena to host their first-of-its-kind โ€˜ABBA Voyageโ€™ avatar show, and although heโ€™s not seen it himself, he can understand why itโ€™s popular.

David saw the Roy Orbison one, however, and he doesnโ€™t feel the audience can fully engage with it and see it as anything more than a tribute.

He added: โ€œThe thing is, I was talking to somebody and I want to go and see the ABBA thing because everyone is raving about it, theyโ€™ve obviously thrown loads of money at it and itโ€™s jammed full of hits. Thatโ€™s the real driver, if itโ€™s full of hit records, that sort of thing works.

โ€œI saw the Roy Orbison thing here. The problem with holograms is people just donโ€™t engage subconsciously. They know itโ€™s a hologram and 20 minutes into it, once theyโ€™ve seen it, people are on their phones, thereโ€™s chit chat, this level of murmur going on.

โ€œThe ABBA thing probably works because itโ€™s jam-packed with hit-after-hit.โ€

โ€˜Careless Whisperโ€™ hitmaker George died aged 53 in December 2016

โ€˜George Michael Freedom Uncutโ€™ is in cinemas for one night only on June 22.

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