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Elvis Presley is set to return to the stage — as a hologram. Elvis Evolution, an “immersive concert experience” that uses AI and holographic projection, will premiere in London in November. Additional shows are planned in Las Vegas, Tokyo and Berlin. The show was created based on thousands of the musician’s personal photos and home-video footage, which were part of a deal between Authentic Brands Group, the owners of the Elvis Presley estate, and Layered Reality, a British immersive entertainment company. Layered…

Grandpa rockers KISS finally hung up the makeup brushes this weekend on the last night of their “The End of the Road” farewell tour. The band promises this marks the end of its 50-year live career, but Gene Simmons found a way to squeeze the last few dollars out of his geriatric fans. KISS is done touring, but you’ll still be able to see digital avatars of the band “perform” instead.KISS left the stage during an encore at New York’s Madison Square Garden Saturday, but the show wasn’t over. According to the Associated…

Look ye, KISS fans, as flesh becomes franchise.Saturday night was supposed to be the end for rock icons KISS—the final night of the final tour, the end of the End of The Road World Tour, a swan song so long and so deafening that it had reverberated across five continents and hundreds of stadiums, spanning 58 months and nearly killing the band’s frontman, Paul Stanley, in the process. As midnight neared in Madison Square Garden, the ascending minor chords of the group’s final encore—“God Gave Rock n’ Roll To You”—drifted…

Claire Richards has teamed up with Erasure star Andy Bell for a cover of ABBA’s ‘Summer Night City’, which is taken from her upcoming second solo album ‘Euphoria’ due for release on 25th August 2023.‘Summer Night City’ follows on from Richards’ take on Celine Dion’s ‘I Surrender’, and it was premiered yesterday on Zoe Ball’s BBC 2 Radio Breakfast Show. The collaboration with Bell is a full-circle moment for Richards after the two singers became friends while competing on ITV’s ‘Popstar to Operastar’.Richards says, “While…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain At ABBA Voyage, a 90-minute long digital concert event, ABBA's Benny Andersson looks over the crowd and addresses them reassuringly: "This is really me, I just look very good for my age." Andersson, of course, is not physically present in the arena, but rather is a digitally animated avatar. ABBA…

ALAN DANCES WITH TOM ( Photo Credit – Bang Showbiz ) Alan Carr was stunned to find himself dancing to ABBA next to Tom Hanks. The 46-year-old comedian had taken his mother to see ‘ABBA Voyage’, the Swedish group’s hologram show, for a Mother’s Day celebration and while he was initially surprised to see two empty seats next to him, he was even more shocked when the chairs were eventually filled by the Oscar winner and his wife Rita Wilson. Alan Carr recalled to Heat magazine, “I took my mum to see ‘Abba Voyage’ on…

Two members of Abba have insisted that the Swedish pop icons won’t be performing at next year’s Eurovision song contest in their homeland.In an interview to air in Britain on Thursday, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, one half of Abba, downplayed the prospect despite Sweden hosting Eurovision on the 50th anniversary of the band’s win – the country’s first – with their breakthrough hit Waterloo.The Nordic nation is set to stage the world’s biggest live music event for the seventh time after Swedish singer Loreen won this…

The Abba star Björn Ulvaeus has said he believes avatars are the future after greeting the 1 millionth attender at the group’s hit show, Voyage.Ulvaeus praised the technology as he greeted the guest at the purpose-built Abba Arena in east London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park on Monday.Voyage presents digital versions of Abba’s members “performing” some of their greatest hits with a 10-piece live band. The millionth visitor – 20-year-old Josie Felix – was treated to a meet and greet with Ulvaeus and described the…

Lasse Wellander, the musician who long served as the guitarist for iconic pop group ABBA, has died at 70.Wellander died Friday after a cancer diagnosis, his family said Sunday. The Swedish musician played on ABBA’s major albums, toured with the globally recognized quartet in the late 1970s and was involved in their recent Grammy-nominated “Voyage” album.“It is with indescribable sadness that we have to announce that our beloved Lasse has fallen asleep. Lasse recently fell ill in what turned out to be spread cancer and…

Abba have paid tribute to the “musical brilliance” of their longstanding guitarist, Lasse Wellander, who has died aged 70 after being diagnosed with cancer.The musician, who played on the band’s biggest albums and toured with them between 1975 and 1980, died early on Friday “surrounded by his loved ones”, his family said.The Abba band members, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, Agnetha Fältskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, said in a statement: “Lasse was a dear friend, a fun guy and a superb guitarist. The importance of his…