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Led Zeppelin Rock Band Or Guitar Hero Will 'Never Happen'

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July 07, 2008 by Jason Gregory | Photo by WENN
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Led Zeppelin have rejected continued requests from the makers of Guitar Hero and Rock Band to release a game inspired by the group, it's been revealed.

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the band are not comfortable with giving away the master copies to their songs.

"It ain't about the money," explained Peter Mensch, a partner at Q Prime Management, who manage guitarist Jimmy Page.

Pressure has grown on Led Zeppelin to return to the public arena since their reunion concert in London last year.

A number of bands have released special edition versions of both games, with Guitar Hero: Aerosmith hitting shops last weekend.

Metallica have also been linked with a future edition of the game, which is expected in Spring 2009.

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  • Guitar hero would do it for the money. Rock Band is for the fans though.

    ~ by carzynick 7/7/2008 Report

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  • Page is worried about selling out after he committed that awful injustice to Kashmir with Puff Diddy Daddy or whatever he’s using for that crappy Godzilla movie from a few years ago? Yeah, Jimmy. Stick to your principles, man.

    ~ by Chili 7/7/2008 Report

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  • After seeing some three Guitar Hero games released this year alone. I’ll agree with nick that if they were to give in to the demand it should be rockban not GH that gets the music. Rockband does happen to be by the original creators of the first 2 GH games.

    ~ by Tommy2Guns 7/26/2008 Report

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  • Rock Band and Guitar Hero, both, basically amount to a glorified air-guitar session. It\'s deeply annoying, for anyone who actually can play guitar, to have to suffer through watching people get off on thinking their skills" on GH are something to be proud of. Kurt Kobain is probably rolling over in his grave at Nirvana songs in RB; and I\'m glad Page is keeping his integrity, and leaving Led Zeppelin out of this ludicrous sham altogether.

    ~ by BW 7/29/2008 Report

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  • And Go-karts are glorified NASCAR competitions, and mini-golf is for non-rating Tiger Woods enthusiasts.. it’s ENTERTAINMENT! Kurt couldn’’t handle any kind of fame so yeah, being glorified in a game probably isn’’t how he envisioned himself before Nirvana took off. How is giving a rapper rights for Kashmir but not selling rights to true rock fans keeping integrity? Thankfully, since I do play guitar, I don’’t get too annoyed

    ~ by Nino 7/31/2008 Report

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