Elvis Presley Immersive Concert Set For London, Vegas, Berlin, Tokyo Following Success Of ABBA Voyage

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have covered Michael Jackson‘s ‘Give In To Me’ for their latest ‘Sunday Lunch’ performance.The musicians and married couple performed the “real fan fave” from the King Of Pop’s 10th album ‘Dangerous’ for this weekend’s musical ‘Sunday Lunch’ cover, which sees the pair perform classic rock songs from their kitchen.The King Crimson musician dressed up as Slash for the performance, donning the Guns N’ Roses guitarist’s signature glasses and black top hat.Willcox rocked out in front of a sign which read “Fripps my Slash” as he played the 1991 track, while the pair looked windswept with the help of a makeshift wind machine.Watch the new ‘Sunday Lunch’ cover below.Earlier this month, the couple kicked off 2024 with a cover of KISS’ ‘Lick It Up’.Other recent highlights include a cover of Bon Jovi’s ‘You Give Love A Bad Name’, The Black Keys‘ ‘Lonely Boy’, and Richard Berry’s ‘Have Love, Will Travel’.Last year, the pair brought their viral lockdown concept to the live stage at Glastonbury, where they performed David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’.They reflected on the success of their series backstage with NME, sharing that the response “did surprise us”.“We were going for about eight months and it was growing and growing and growing,” Willcox said. “It started with one very simple post: 28 seconds of us jiving.

Austin Butler landed a highly coveted role in Hollywood when he was cast to bring Elvis Presley to life in Baz Luhrmann‘s biopic Elvis, and he faced stiff competition to book the Oscar-nominated role.

Apparently, some people do not want this show to go on! Those behind a tribute act to Michael Jackson in Las Vegas claimed the late singer’s estate has been trying to cancel their show — so they’re taking them to court to battle it out now!

Michael Jackson estate have been accused of unfairly threatening to sue a tribute act, MJ Live.On Wednesday (January 17), the orgainisers of MJ Live filed a complaint to the Nevada federal court, requesting the judge rule they could continue their concerts. MJ Live performs six nights a week at the Tropicana; along with other venues, the show has been performed over 3,600 times since 2012.However, MJ Live claim that the Jackson estate has recently begun threatening to sue the impersonators.

The upcoming Michael Jackson biopic has cast a young actor to portray a young MJ!

Reba McEntire, Post Malone and Andra Day will kick off this year’s Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas with pre-game performances, the NFL announced today.

Kanye West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s collaborative album ‘Vultures’ appears to have been pushed back yet again.The pair have been teasing their new album for some months, after news first circulated in August 2023 that West would be releasing new music “imminently”.After numerous delays to the project, most recent reports suggested that the LP would be dropping some time at the end of January.However, another new release date appears to have been set, after a representative for West confirmed a new date of February 9 to Forbes.A post shared by Ty Dolla $ign (@tydollasign)In October, West – who now goes by Ye – reportedly held an intimate listening party at a recording studio in Italy for the new album, which was said to include a collaboration with Ty Dolla $ign.Rumours then swirled about an upcoming concert in Italy to promote the new album, before sources said that the concert will most likely not be taking place.Ty Dolla $ign later announced a “multi stadium listening event” for the joint album, which ended up getting cancelled over safety concerns before it was even announced.Various release dates throughout December and January have been floated in recent weeks, only for it to be delayed further.Last month, West and Ty Dolla $ign‘s hosted a Las Vegas rave event that was shut down by the authorities. To celebrate the joint album, the two rappers announced the event at a facility in the Sloan area just south of the Las Vegas Valley in Nevada.

Emmys 2024 red carpet after a tense legal battleover Lisa Marie Presley’s estate. Keough, 34, donned ablack Chanel gown while Priscilla, 78, also dressed in black with her signature red hair and red lip. Their public reunion comes days after the first anniversary of Lisa Marie’s death on Jan.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The musical-comedy “Shucked” had its closing performance on Broadway Sunday night, but the show went out with an even louder set of whoops than expected, as the curtain call included the news that a feature film adaptation is in the works. Show reps confirm to Variety that a movie version of “Shucked” is being set up with Mandalay Pictures. The producers for Mandalay will be Jason Michael Berman (AIR) and Jordan Moldo, along with Alan Fox.

The Berlin Film Festival today unveiled further titles for the 2024 edition of its Berlinale Special Presentations sidebar section alongside its classics program. Scroll down for the full list of titles announced today.

Elvis Presley AI hologram show Elvis Evolution is more like “time travel” than ABBA Voyage, according to its creator.As announced last week, Elvis Evolution will make its bow in the capital in November. The “immersive concert experience” will use AI and hologram technology to create a life size digital hologram of the legendary star from home video footage and personal photos.It follows hot on the heels of the launch of ABBA Hologram show ABBA Voyage in 2022, which is continuing to run until at least November 2024 at the 3,000-capacity ABBA Arena in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.Andrew McGuinness, the founder of Layered Reality, who are behind the new Elvis show told BBC News of what to expect from the spectacle.“You’re going to be stepping in to intricate sets that make you feel like you’ve time travelled,” he said.

Austin Butler’s Oscar-nominated turn in 2022’s “Elvis” and then continued with Jacob Elordi’s portrayal of the late rock legend in Sofia Coppola’s recent “Priscilla” drama is showing no signs of dying down with a new immersive show that will bring him back to life in an AI hologram. Forty-seven years after Presley’s 1977 death, “Elvis Evolution” will open in London in November 2024 at a theater yet to be announced.

Elvis Presley hologram show is set to premiere in London this year.Elvis Evolution will make its bow in the capital in November.

Naman Ramachandran The king of rock and roll is set to conquer a new stage – artificial intelligence (AI). A holographic AI version of Elvis Presley will regale London audiences from November in stage show “Elvis Evolution.” The show is from Layered Reality, the U.K. company specializing in immersive experiences, whose credits include “Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience” and “The Gunpowder Plot.” Layered Reality describes “Elvis Evolution” as “a major new show celebrating the world’s biggest star of stage and screen, Elvis Presley, with a jaw-dropping concert finale and a personal invite to the after party.

Following last year's smash hit biopic Elvis, starring heartthrob Austin Butler, which won him, amongst others, an Oscar nomination, and Priscilla, about his relationship with Priscilla Beaulieu showing in UK cinemas, the iconic Elvis Presley has never been more front of mind. And now an immersive concert experience coming to London, with an AI king of rock ‘n’ roll performing on stage, is set to bring the late crooner's incredible legacy to life.

Christina Aguilera has some sad news for her fans one week after launching her latest Las Vegas residency.

It was another historic year with another change in Prime Minister, a new monarch officially crowned and the Lionesses reaching the World Cup final.

Las Vegas Review-Journal. “It was fun,” Marie Musso Greene said when asked what it was like being married to the late headliner. “He always made humor out of whatever he could.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Taylor Swift has broken Elvis Presley‘s longstanding record for the most weeks spent atop the Billboard 200 album chart by a solo artist. She set a new mark of 68 total weeks, as “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” landed on top of the chart for a fifth time in the final full tracking week of 2023. Although Swift set a new record for an individual, the ultimate high-water mark among all artists is still held by the Beatles, whose albums have spent 132 weeks on top of the Billboard 200.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor Shecky Greene, the legendary standup comedian known for his long tenure as a Las Vegas headliner and for working with Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, died Dec. 31 at his home, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.