20th May 2014

Michael Jackson hologram performs Slave To The Rhythm

Michael Jackson hologram performs Slave To The Rhythm... and gets standing ovation at Billboard Music Awards 2014.

He died in June 2009 but Michael Jackson-s music is still having audiences everywhere on their feet.
And on Sunday night (19th May 2014) a hologram of the late King Of Pop rocked the Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas.
The hologram, which was amazingly realistic, performed Slave To The Rhythm and even moonwalked across the stage.

The track is off Jackson-s new posthumous album Xscape and was introduced by Ludacris, alongside his Rising Star co-hosts Kesha and Brad Paisley.

The hologram danced around the stage in a golden jacket and red trousers with fire shooting all around him, before appearing alongside several dancers, and began with Michael on a throne.

The onstage resurrection garnered a standing ovation by the massive star-studded audience, who were clearly moved by the performance nearly five years after his death - but it might not have happened.

Only on Friday did a federal judge rule that the Billboard Music Awards could use the hologram, rejecting efforts from tech companies seeking to block the digital performance.