{"id":797729,"date":"2026-10-10T04:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T04:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797729\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T04:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T04:32:08","slug":"brian-mays-ai-fears-throw-virtual-queen-show-into-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797729\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian May\u2019s AI fears throw virtual Queen show into doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Brian had drawn up plans for an experience that would fall somewhere between the Abba Voyage show, in which digital avatars of the band perform in their late 1970s prime, and the Eagles<\/a> show at the Las Vegas Sphere last year, in which band members performed on stage in front of giant LED displays which enveloped the auditorium.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe looked at it very seriously after I saw what the Eagles did with the Sphere, which I thought was amazing,\u201d the guitarist said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent a lot of time planning what I thought could be a Queen show. I\u2019ve kind of backed off now because you can\u2019t do it without massive use of AI, with all the consequences of that,\u201d he told Absolute Radio.<\/p>\n

While this use of AI <\/a>would not plunder someone else\u2019s work, Sir Brian<\/a> said he had issues with the technology having any involvement at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not quite sure where I stand on it, because we\u2019d be stealing from the Queen oeuvre,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, you\u2019re adding to the stresses that AI is adding to the world. So I don\u2019t know \u2013 I\u2019m not so keen as I was.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it would be great to have a permanent place where people could go and feel like they are seeing us play live in our peak, maybe all over the world, maybe at all points in time. The doors are open, but I don\u2019t know if we\u2019re going to walk through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Brian had drawn up plans for an experience that would fall somewhere between the Abba Voyage show,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[17949,554,733,4308,1004,50,30335,5438,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-abba","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-freddie-mercury","tag-news","tag-queen-band","tag-standard","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}