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Article: Video-game review: `Rock Band,' `Guitar Hero III' bring music to the masses
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- December 7, 2007
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These aren't good times to be a rock 'n' roll fan. There isn't even one rock song among Billboard's top 10 singles. Rock radio stations are vanishing at an alarming clip. The most popular rock band in the country is Daughtry.
Nonetheless, kids all over the world are picking up guitars _ or at least, objects that resemble guitars. It's all thanks to "Guitar Hero," the video game that lets you jam with rock gods like Jimi Hendrix and Keith Richards. And while pushing buttons on a plastic guitar may not prepare you to open for Aerosmith, guitar teachers have reported increased enrollment since "GH" debuted in 2005.
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