Harrison's Son Brings Beatles to 'Rock Band,' Hopes for Zeppelin

George Harrison's son, Dhani, has been working with Harmonix, the makers of the wildly successful 'Rock Band,' while making his own music with the NewNo2. But Dhani Harrison tells Spinner it was through his own music he was able to bring the Beatles to 'Rock Band,' which hits shelves September 9. "I had a few of my own songs on there before I brought the project to the Beatles," he says. "Then, I could go to Apple [Corps Ltd.] and say, 'This is what I'm doing with my music and I intend to do this with the George Harrison catalog and the Beatles catalog, if you will let me. This is a great music delivery system.'"

Having now brought the most popular rock band of all time to the digital age, who would Harrison like to see follow the Beatles? "Radiohead and Led Zeppelin," he says without hesitating. "Radiohead are reluctant to give up their masters. They don't like people having the stems because they don't want them to remix their stuff. If you've been Radiohead for this long you shouldn't really worry about that because it's not as if anybody's going to remix your tracks better than you've done. And Zeppelin would just be great, straight-up rock 'n' roll."

Even the makers of 'Rock Band' aren't immune to the Zeppelin hero worship, something Harrison, who grew up jamming on Zeppelin numbers with his friends in school, understands. "The way that the people at Harmonix see it, if I'm correct, is Beatles and Zeppelin were the two bands -- the two number one choices -- of who they would make a game for."

One down, one to go.