Guitar Hero launched in 2005 and finally gave music fans the chance to be rock stars without having to go through the aggravating trouble of actually learning an instrument. Originally developed by Harmonix, the series development moved to Neversoft in 2007. Harmonix then moved on to Rock Band, which expanded upon Guitar Hero's premise by adding the rest of the band to the lead guitar. (Unfortunately, Guitar Hero is still attached to the Activision name, a company that has faced multiple accusations of abuse from current and former employees. Here's hoping that actually changes in the near future.)

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But both series were good-natured fun and let instrumentalists and non-instrumentalists alike celebrate their love of music. Everyone from Megadeth and Iron Maiden to Franz Ferdinand and Interpol have been available to play at one point or another, but who are some musical acts notably absent from the series?

10 Post-Oasis Noel and Liam

Oasis were arguably the biggest band in the world in the mid-1990s, and they're featured in the Guitar Hero World Tour base game with Some Might Say, off of their (What's The Story) Morning Glory? LP. Additional songs were added via DLC.

So, it's odd that neither Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds nor Beady Eye or Liam Gallagher's solo material are featured in any Guitar Hero or Rock Band video games. Both the White Stripes and Jack White are featured, and Blur and Gorillaz (both fronted by Damon Albarn) make appearances, so it's not like the games are averse to featuring the same people in different forms.

9 King Gizzard And the Lizard Wizard

This rock band out of Australia may be a little too niche for a game that features more mainstream acts, so that could be why they aren't in any of the games, but they're an incredible band that the rock genre needs today. It could also be possible that by releasing their first album in 2012, they're just a little too new. The final main Rock Band entry came out in 2015, after all.

The thing is, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are so prolific, that by the time the final Rock Band game launched, the outfit was on the verge of releasing their seventh album. For those keeping track, that's seven albums in just three years. It's not like the rhythm games were lacking in material.

8 Foxygen

The self-proclaimed "21st century ambassadors of peace and magic" love rock and roll, and nowhere is this clearer than off their album of the same name, which they released in 2013. Songs like San Francisco, On Blue Mountain, and No Destruction have great potential for any rhythm game, and the duo has a classic rock sound that appeals to players of the series.

Alas, that modern rock gem never appeared on either Guitar Hero or Rock Band. They had one more chance to appear in a main game with their 2014 release ...And Star Power, but it never came to fruition.

7 The Moody Blues

While Guitar Hero and Rock Band feature their fair share of more modern rock acts such as Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park, the games also pander heavily to those who enjoy classic rock. The Beatles got their own Rock Band game, and the likes of King Crimson, Scorpions, and Fleetwood Mac are easily found throughout the series.

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Not so the Moody Blues, who are perhaps best remembered for Nights In White Satin. And maybe that's a song that's not exciting enough for a rhythm game, but it's not like they only did ballads. Ride My See Saw and I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band) are two Moody tracks that are upbeat and suitable for play.

6 Madonna

Astoundingly, the second-best-selling artist of the 1980s isn't featured in any of the main games of the Guitar Hero or Rock Band series. There seems to be something about the 80s, however, that is puzzling. Phil Collins, the third-best-selling artist of the decade, isn't in any game either. U2, at number four, wasn't added to the series until Rock Band 4, the final entry in the series' mainline.

Whatever the reason, there's a weird hang-up about the bestsellers of the 1980s. As for Madonna, unfortunately, it doesn't look like you'll be "touched for the very first time" anytime soon.

5 Electric Light Orchestra

According to John Lennon, had the Beatles stuck around in the 1970s, they might have sounded like Jeff Lynne and his Electric Light Orchestra. And yes, there are a lot of "Beatlisms" to their music, especially in songs like 10538 Overture.

But Lennon wasn't the only Beatle enamored with what Lynne was doing. George Harrison convinced him to join him on stage and in the recording studio with the Traveling Wilburys, and Lynne even produced the Beatles mid-90s reunion songs. There's an entire Rock Band game for the Beatles. Why not a song from ELO?

4 The Supremes

As much of a head-scratcher as Madonna and any of the aforementioned 80s snubs, the Supremes were massive in the 1960s, coming in between the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones when it comes to record sales.

Why is this? It's hard to say, but maybe the classic Motown sound isn't quite Guitar Hero-y or Rock Band-y enough for the developers' liking. That would make sense, if it were not for fellow Motown star Marvin Gaye being featured in the Band Hero spinoff game. And while Band Hero isn't in the main line of games, it still shows Motown has a viable sound for these rhythm titles.

3 ABBA

That's right, there are no ABBA songs to be found anywhere within the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games. However, you can find ABBA in the ABBA: You Can Dance game, which launched for the Nintendo Wii in 2011. It might be that that game controlled all of ABBA's video game rights.

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If you'd rather not be a dancing queen but are still looking to get your ABBA video game fix, you can check out SingStar ABBA, a karaoke game for the Playstation 2 and 3, which launched in 2008.

2 Pink Floyd

"Wait... Pink Floyd isn't in Guitar Hero or Rock Band? But I just played... no. Really?" Yes! Really. Any memory you have of playing Pink Floyd in Guitar Hero or Rock Band is false unless you've downloaded or otherwise created custom tracks.

The British band behind some of the 1970s' greatest LPs is nowhere to be found. Decades of in-fighting could be a factor here. Roger Waters and David Gilmour, the two most senior members of Pink Floyd, can't agree on anything. It could be that internal squabbles prevented the band from appearing in either of the rhythm games (maybe they're not "artsy" enough for one of them?), because the developers undoubtedly tried to put them in. Regardless of the reason, this is one missing entry to make you say "how I wish you were here."

1 Led Zeppelin

If there's an unconquerable white whale of guitar-based rhythm games, it's Led Zeppelin. The developers of the Guitar Hero and Rock Band games have allegedly tried for years to get Jimmy Page and company to acquiesce to their wishes for inclusion, but it seems that Page specifically is averse to such frivolous nonsense.

In fact, Led Zeppelin has a long history of keeping their music away from other media. It took years before they began licensing their music for movies and TV shows, and they resisted putting their music up on iTunes until 2007. For fans of rock music and rhythm games, Led Zeppelin's absence may be the biggest Heartbreaker of all.

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