George Michael ruled out ever starring in an ABBA-style avatar show because Tupac’s hologram was “s***”.
His close friend and collaborator David Austin says the team discussed creating a hologram of George before he died in 2016.
Now, David vows “never” to let George be depicted that way.
He says: “We were thinking about doing something at the Royal Albert Hall. We had an idea: in the middle of Fastlove, where the rain comes down in the video, we looked at a hologram in the middle of the Royal Albert Hall which we thought would blow people away.
“I had all these people courting me – and they’d done the Tupac hologram.
“I went to look at a lot of them and they were s***. They were really poor. It just did not work.”
Speaking at the launch of the George Michael documentary Freedom: Uncut, ahead of its release next week, David said he was intrigued to see ABBA’s East London show. He said: “They’ve obviously thrown loads of money at it and it’s jammed full of hits.”
But, he said: “The problem with holograms is that people don’t engage sub-consciously. They know it is a hologram and once they have seen it, people are on their phones. I just saw the Michael Jackson thing in New York and it looked like a tribute act.”
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