Brian May Says Queen: Rock Band "May Happen"
Rock Band [http://www.queenonline.com/home] and says discussions about making it happen are already underway.
With over 300 million albums sold worldwide, it's hard to argue that Queen isn't a hugely successful band. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Queen albums have spent a combined 1322 weeks - that's 27 years - on the U.K album charts. The band's Greatest Hits has actually outsold the Beatles' classic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the U.K. by well over a half-million copies.
In that light, then, a Queen-based Rock Band game doesn't seem so unlikely and May recently told the BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8304176.stm] it could happen. Discussions about bringing the game to life are "going on behind the scenes," he said, adding, "Yes, we're into it. I think it may happen."
May is already on the verge of being immortalized in the digital realm: He's appearing in Lego Rock Band [http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/l/legorockband/], which comes out next month, and his enthusiasm for the genre is clear. "It's the ultimate accolade, to be portrayed in Lego," he said. "My dreams are all fulfilled now."
I like Queen but I have to admit that I'm not completely sold on this idea. May could probably speak more authoritatively on the matter than I (he's an astrophysicist with a Ph.D., after all, while I'm pretty much a high-school dropout) but is there really enough material, with enough wide-ranging appeal, to support a game similar to Guitar Hero: Van Halen [http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/], maybe, but anything more than that seems like an awfully big reach.
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Rock Band [http://www.queenonline.com/home] and says discussions about making it happen are already underway.
With over 300 million albums sold worldwide, it's hard to argue that Queen isn't a hugely successful band. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Queen albums have spent a combined 1322 weeks - that's 27 years - on the U.K album charts. The band's Greatest Hits has actually outsold the Beatles' classic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the U.K. by well over a half-million copies.
In that light, then, a Queen-based Rock Band game doesn't seem so unlikely and May recently told the BBC [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8304176.stm] it could happen. Discussions about bringing the game to life are "going on behind the scenes," he said, adding, "Yes, we're into it. I think it may happen."
May is already on the verge of being immortalized in the digital realm: He's appearing in Lego Rock Band [http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/l/legorockband/], which comes out next month, and his enthusiasm for the genre is clear. "It's the ultimate accolade, to be portrayed in Lego," he said. "My dreams are all fulfilled now."
I like Queen but I have to admit that I'm not completely sold on this idea. May could probably speak more authoritatively on the matter than I (he's an astrophysicist with a Ph.D., after all, while I'm pretty much a high-school dropout) but is there really enough material, with enough wide-ranging appeal, to support a game similar to Guitar Hero: Van Halen [http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/], maybe, but anything more than that seems like an awfully big reach.
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