OZZY OSBOURNE Discovers Guitar Hero:

OZZY OSBOURNE Discovers Guitar Hero: World Tour




Rollingstone.com is reporting:

Sitting underneath a chandelier with its light bulbs screwed into metal bats, OZZY OSBOURNE — the self-proclaimed "Prince of Fuckin' Darkness" — explains how he became a character in Guitar Hero: World Tour. "They wanted somebody people could relate to," says the man who once snorted a line of ants just to see what would happen.

To say that Osbourne is an unlikely video-game star would be an understatement. He admits he doesn't play at all, although he fondly remembers Pong, Pac-Man and Tetris — or, as he calls it, "the one my wife used to play in bed all the fucking time with the bricks." And some fans may object that Osbourne is not actually a guitarist — but that's what makes him the ideal representative for a game where no one actually plays guitar. As if to illustrate this point, Osbourne declines to participate when a demo crew from Activision, Guitar Hero's parent company, sets up the equipment in his home office in Los Angeles to let him preview the game for the first time. Instead, three Activision employees play drums, guitar and bass, leading Osbourne's electronic doppelgänger through his hit 'Crazy Train'.

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