The Beatles: Rock Band was the single greatest thing to come out of the games industry's plastic instrument craze, an absurdly lavish and beautifully judged tribute to the most important music band in history. It cost me an absolute tonne but I still have an old 360 in the garage somewhere with all the DLC, and outside of the actual music it's probably my favourite Beatles product.
From the game's opening seconds it's obvious this was a massive labour of love for Harmonix, the studio that had kicked-off the whole genre with the original Guitar Hero. Many of those involved in bringing the project to life have now given interviews for The Oral History of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Music Game Boom, a newly released book by journalist Blake Hester, with an excerpt detailing some of those initial meetings published on Design Room.
