This year at Coachella, the late great Tupac Shakur performed live with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre.
You can see it for yourself:
Okay, yes, it's digital trickery, employing unimaginably vast quantities of data, but still — it's pretty awesome. I'm ready to see the Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain versions, which are promised soon.
Why not? Isn't this the underlying promise of pop music stardom — immortality?
[Ed. note: Correction! This was actually not a hologram, but an old stage trick — but a comment on the story linked above once said that the creators are working to bring back other artists.]
Kit Stolz 