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Queen guitarist happy now, though.
Queen guitarist Brian May required his famous perm be replicated perfectly before he signed away his likeness for LEGO Rock Band.
"I ...
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his hair was modelled perfectly for his 'Lego Rock
Band' likeness. The Queen guitarist has been immortalised, along with the rest of his group, in the game as a Lego character, but said he insisted the ...
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Brian May had hair demands for LEGO: Rock Band
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... a nice thing.”
Not only that, but May scored a point over fellow venerable rock legend and Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott, who is totally jealous:
“Joe Elliott rang me up and said he was pissed off because they didn’t make one of him.”
Bless ‘em. Also, isn’t it nice to hear a rock star not bitching about their likeness in a music videogame?
[Yahoo, via Eurogamer]
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