Brian May Was Building a Queen Avatar Show. Then He Stopped.
Brian May got far enough into a Queen avatar show to have it planned out, and then he put it down. Talking to Absolute Radio, May said seeing the Las Vegas Sphere, and what the Eagles did inside it, was what set him off. He spent real time mapping what a Queen version could look like. The thing that stopped him was the machinery it would take to build: there is no version of it without heavy use of AI.
What makes the admission worth reading is that May does not settle the question. He says plainly he has no interest in taking other people's work. Stealing from the Queen catalogue is a different problem, since the catalogue is theirs, and he is not sure where he lands on that. Either way, building it adds to the load AI is already putting on everyone else.
"The doors are open, but I don't know if we're gonna walk through."
He has not given up on the underlying idea. May still wants a permanent room somewhere, maybe several rooms in several cities, where a fan can walk in and watch Queen at full strength, at any point in the band's life. That is the pitch. The technology that would deliver it is the part he keeps backing away from.
Context matters here. The Dio hologram tour and ABBA's Voyage residency have both split audiences, and May has been openly keen on a Sphere residency before now. Coming from the man who has done more than anyone to keep Queen in front of new listeners, the hesitation is the story.