During a recent interview with The Times, Queen’s Brian May ruled out the possibility of future tours. The guitarist retired from the road 18 months ago.
May said the following:
“I made a decision 18 months ago that I didn’t want to tour again. A close family friend died when we were in the States, so I said to my tour manager, ‘I’ll just nip home for a few days and come back.’ She looked me in the eyes and said, ‘You know you can’t do that.’
I love to play, I love to travel, but the trade-off is sacrificing your freedom. I have a wife, grandchildren and a lot of astrophysics I want to do, so I’m thinking maybe 50 years is enough.”
He also added:
“We do want to do something fairly revolutionary. Not as ABBA did [with digital avatars], but along those lines. … Last year I went to the Sphere [in Las Vegas], my juices started flowing and I sketched out a whole Queen show. I think an immersive experience is still on the cards and it could conquer time and space, but currently you can’t make it without A.I. [artificial intelligence] and I have serious misgivings about that. … Data centers are a massive evil and have to be fought.”
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