Rolling Stone and Pink Floyd's Mason warn off music games

Rock Band's bad. Rolling Stone Bill Wyman and Pink Floyd's Nick Mason say it stops people learning how to actually play musical instruments.

"It encourages kids not to learn, that's the trouble," Wyman told the BBC.

"It makes less and less people dedicated to really get down and learn an instrument. I think is a pity so I'm not really keen on that kind of stuff."

Mason described the likes of Rock Band and Guitar Hero as "interesting new developments," but added:

"It irritates me having watched my kids do it - if they spent as much time practising the guitar as learning how to press the buttons they'd be damn good by now."

We're saying nothing. You'll be able to press buttons along to Beatles songs in return for hundreds of pounds tomorrow, don't forget.