When Queen’s drummer, Roger Taylor, was asked if he’d want a hologram Freddie Mercury a la Tupac – he declined, saying “I don’t want to appear with a hologram of my dear friend.” Which is unfortunately ambiguous wording, because they’ve decided to conjure up a Mercury hologram at the 10th anniversary We Will Rock You musical.

Taylor’s full quote ran in Billboard:

“I don’t think I want to. Were somebody (else) to use a hologram of Freddie, I would have no objection… It just doesn’t sit too well with me. I don’t want to appear with a hologram of my dear friend. It’s the real one or no hologram for me. But I think it’s an amazing effect when used properly—obviously in darkness.”

Obviously for most of us the important part here is the bit where he says he wouldn’t be entirely cool with a Mercury hologram, but it turns out that he sort of gave ‘somebody else’ permission to utilize Mercury’s undead image – in this case the producers of Queen’s West End run of We Will Rock You, with the 10th anniversary performance set to start in a couple of hours. Something something another one bites the dust.

Robert De Niro’s going to be on stage too, weirdly. As a human, not as a hologram. This time.

[Source: BBC]