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CLUB NME STARRING ROCKBAND

With life-like controllers that capture the raw physicality of rocking out onstage, Rockband is the ultimate interactive music experience, delivering all the sweat-drenched excitement of live music - minus the over-priced lager and surly roadies bellowing, 'One two, one two' ad nauseam. Choosing one of four instruments - drums, bass, guitar or vocals - you can either play solo or hook up with friends to form your own arena-slaying rock band, blasting through your pick of 67 classic tracks, including Radiohead's Creep, Nirvana's In Bloom and Black Sabbath's Paranoid. In short, it's the closest you can come to being a rock idol without developing a crippling drink problem and an ego the size of Johnny Borrell's. Altogether: "Toniiight, I'm a rock n' roll staaaar..."

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