The Beatles recent foray into interactive entertainment proved to be a successful one as they beat out the rival Guitar Hero franchise by a significant margin.

Now everyone and their mother wants their digitized likeness to grace the television screens of prepubescent boys everywhere, with The Who being the latest such entry into the video game pantheon.

During an interview with MassLive, Roger Daltrey inadvertently leaked information that he, Pete Townshend, and the estates of John Entwistle and Keith Moon, had signed off on an upcoming Rock Band video game.

“The game, yeah, yeah, they’re going to be doing a Who one next year,” Daltrey said. “There is one planed. [The idea] is fabulous. Anything that gets non-musical people interested in music is wonderful.”

The Who-centric project was later confirmed by a Harmonix spokesperson, but further information regarding a possible Technicolor showdown with a flamboyantly gay Elton John has yet to be validated outside my own overactive imagination.

“We’re working closely with the Who on what’s next, but don’t have anything new to announce at this time,” a nameless Public Relations representative told Kotaku.

Either way, I’m not exactly looking forward to failing out of “Pinball Wizard” for the thousandth time, give or take.

Last month’s release of The Beatles: Rock Band inspired more than just renewed interest in the Fab Four’s storied legacy; it also left U2 wondering how they let a promising opportunity to sell out yet again slip through their fingers.

According to USA Today Bono and company were approached last year by video game publisher Electronic Arts to produce a U2 centric product, but feared technology had not advanced enough to fully capture their air of superiority.

“What the Beatles have done, where the animation is much more representative of them, is what we’re interested in, rather than the one-size-fits-all animation,” bassist Adam Clayton said. “We didn’t want to be caricatured.”

Although the beloved Irish rockers were quick to dismiss EA’s proposal, Clayton insinuated U2 wouldn’t be as hesitant the second time around.

“We definitely would like to be in there,” he said. “But we felt some of the compromises weren’t what we wanted. That could change. I love the idea that that’s where people are getting music and we’d love to be in that world. We’ll figure something out.”

Ultimate buzz kills Jimmy Page and Jack White believe that the drunken act of playing plastic instruments and slurring lyrics at a friend’s party is not the best way to learn how to play music.

In a press conference for their upcoming documentary It Might Get Loud the White Stripes, Raconteurs, and Dead Weather frontman (he gets around) said that the notion of children being exposed to music through video games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band is incredibly discouraging to him.

“It’s depressing to have a label come and tell you that [Guitar Hero] is how kids are learning about music and experiencing music,” White said. “If you have to be in a video game to get in front of them, that’s a little sad.”

The legendary Led Zeppelin guitarist also chimed in on the matter by alleging that no one playing a toy drum set will ever become as good as his deceased bandmate.

“You think of the drum part that John Bonham did on Led Zeppelin’s first track on the first album, ‘Good Times Bad Times’,” Page pondered. “How many drummers in the world can play that part, let alone on Christmas morning?”

Well, no sh*t Sherlock, there isn’t a whole lot of trained musicians around that can play as good as Bonham, and I seriously doubt people are turning to video games in lieu of actual lessons.

Instead of pointing out the obvious, you should be embracing the fact that an entire new generation of consumers who may not have otherwise been exposed to your music, will now have an opportunity to experience Led Zeppelin IV and De Stijl first hand rather than grow up with the next Lady Gaga.

And no offense, but your music stopped being sacred the second you turned it into a commodity for Cadillac commercials, so really what harm can come from licensing it to a video game publisher?