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Sony release Queen SingStar game
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 4 February 2009
Sony Computer Entertainment has announced it will release a Queen edition of its karaoke video game SingStar, giving PlayStation owners the chance to sing along to twenty-five of the band’s classic hits, including ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘We Are The Champions’, ‘I Want To Break Free’ and ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ (yeah, good luck with the latter, given the band themselves rarely performed it fully live due to the layered vocals). It will be released in the UK on 13 Mar.
The game sees SCE working with EMI, who conveniently own both Queen’s recording and publishing catalogues.
The boss of EMI Publishing UK, Guy Moot, said this: “The Queen catalogue is undoubtedly one of the jewels in EMI Music Publishing’s crown, and we’re delighted that we’ve been able to help bring their music to the ‘SingStar’ platform. Video games are an increasingly important part of our business now, and I hope that these fantastic songs help introduce yet another generation to the incredible music written by one of Britain’s greatest ever bands”.
