Def Leppard’s new music video ‘Dangerous’ is to be released on Guitar Hero this week. They are to become the first band to release a video on the popular modern video game.

Remember MTV?

Leppard guitarist Phil Collen said, “It seems like everything has been done, and MTV doesn’t really exist any more.” Yes, MTV is a superb medium to promote music, and how about gaming to be the futuristic aggrandize? Flex your fingers to get those notes correct. But . . . wasn’t MTV every band’s ambition?

We can all strum (why strum? more like thrash) along to the rocking numbers of Def Leppard. I’ve always found it much more difficult to play Hero rather than to flog my copy black and white Strat alongside the distorted settings of the amp.

C D and G7 (perhaps?)

It makes me realise . . . the future of guitar can be through . . . Guitar Hero: Why not? I tried golf in heavy rain on a rather easy Par 3-4 course. I fell and nearly drowned in the flooded bunkers; yet I had mastered the EA Sports version in the warmth of my above-par lounge (for there are no handicaps in one’s own home!). So can music be defined simply as a ‘game’?

I do not think it should.

Remember Dire Straits ‘Money for Nothing’? You may not. But to understand a Def Leppard ‘Guitar Hero’ presentation is no surprise. Hero is the ‘Money for Nothing’ of the present day. It will, or Perhaps, offer something for its younger audience. Let’s hope.

Is that the point? Have we lost MTV? I hope not. It took decades for me to receive it on my own TV, so why should it be lost? ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ by The Buggles should always remain as that first remembered MTV video appearance. Remember every ‘FIRST’ see?

Perhaps Def Leppard’s ‘Dangerous’ will join them in the future of visual music alongside those other visual performances? Or . . . Is Def Leppard the ‘coolest’ or is ‘cool’, or is it . . . SO 35 years ago? . . . Perhaps too cool to be a guitar hero?