


Of course, the series hasn't always licenced its music. Music and Grand Theft Auto are intimately, inseparably linked. Those are some of mine: you probably have a fair few of your own. Getting into a vehicle for the first time in Vice City and hearing the strains of Michael Jackson's Billie Jean. Driving around GTA 3's Liberty City in the rain with the haunting operatic aria O Mio Babbino Caro playing on Double Clef FM. Crossing the desert in San Andreas to the tune of America's Horse With No Name. Ask someone about their fondest GTA memory and it probably won't be a mission they remember-it'll be a moment tied to a piece of music. The radio stations in the Grand Theft Auto games are not just random selections of songs: they're tastefully curated journeys through many different genres, designed to evoke a very particular sense of mood, time, and place. When it comes to putting licensed music in video games, no one can touch Rockstar.
