Charles Huang, co-founders of RedOctane, one of the companies behind Guitar Hero, is forcing the world to speculate on rumours about The Beatles and Metallica in Guitar Hero thanks to his evasion.

Asked about rumours that Beatles songs would appear in a Guitar Hero game dedicated to the group, Huang said, "Unfortunately, those are rumours right now and we don't have any comments yet".

Surely commenting that these are just rumours is in fact a comment? We all know that means there's no way in Hell that The Beatles will ever come to the Guitar Hero series now! SPOnG is forced to speculate that the triumvirate of Electronic Arts, MTV Games and Harmonix bagged the game rights to The Beatles catalogue in the discussions we reported on a couple of weeks ago.

Unless, of course, copyright holders of the Beatles catalogue are remaining true to past form. "Well, I don't have to tell you how difficult it is", Huang added. "Everybody in the world has tried to get the Beatles to put their music on all kinds of different platforms, and it certainly would be exciting, but it's also a difficult challenge."

Huang also didn't feel up to commenting on rumours that a Metallica-based Guitar Hero game will be turning up. "We're not ready to comment about Metallica yet, but what I will say is that we'd love to work with all of the top rock bands of all time, whether it's Aerosmith or Metallica or AC/DC or Led Zeppelin", Huang said. "If we get an opportunity to work with those bands, we would love to do that."

The opportunity to work with Metallica looks to have already cropped up. In an SEC filing back in May, Activision stated, "In fiscal 2009, we plan to publish Guitar Hero: On Tour for the NDS; Guitar Hero: Aerosmith, Guitar Hero: Metallica, and Guitar Hero IV across multiple platforms."

Someone should probably tell Huang. He'll be dead chuffed!

Unfortunately, Led Zeppelin doesn't look to be on the cards for Guitar Hero. According to an article on the Wall Street Journal's website, the band has declined to allow its songs to appear on a music game because it doesn't want the master recordings to be in the hands of outsiders.

Not so long ago Activision announced Guitar Hero: World Tour. You can read more on that here.

^{Sources: Billboard, Wall Street Journal}