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A judge in Los Angeles has given Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose permission to move forward with his lawsuit against the manufacturers of the popular Guitar Hero video game series.

The singer filed a $20 million lawsuit against bosses at Activision Blizzard last year, alleging they reneged on the terms of a deal to include a Guns N’ Roses song in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock.

Rose claims he only let Welcome To The Jungle be included in the game if Activision bosses agreed not to team it with any images of the band’s former guitarist, Slash.

The rocker has filed suit over allegations company executives broke that promise by featuring “an animated depiction of Slash” on the cover of the game.

The case went to court on Thursday and after a brief hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charles Palmer agreed the lawsuit can proceed and scheduled the trial for January 23, 2012.

Files were flying in the messy lawsuit between Axl Rose and Irving Azoff, CEO and majority shareholder of Front Line, which was acquired by Ticketmaster in 2008.

During a deposition, court papers recently filed by Rose’s lawyer say, Azoff threw a stack of papers at lawyer Skip Miller, ripped off his own microphone and stormed out of the room when questioned about the merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation and how it would concentrate power in the music industry.

In March, Azoff sued Rose, claiming that he owed 15 percent of the earnings from a Guns N’ Roses reunion tour.

Rose says Azoff used his power to “bully him . . . to reuinite with the original members of Guns N’ Roses for a reunion tour by purposefully neglecting and failing to market and promote” the band’s first album in 15 years, “Chinese Democracy,” but with new members apart from Rose, papers filed in LA Superior Court say.

Axl Rose is being sued by a famed music manager who claims the singer owes him nearly $2 million in unpaid commissions.

Front Line Management, which was founded by Irving Azoff, sued Rose in Los Angeles on Thursday for nearly $1.9 million in unpaid fees. The company claims it had an oral agreement with Rose to receive 15 percent of the Guns N’ Roses’ frontman’s commissions.

The lawsuit states the commissions are due on more than $12 million in earnings Rose made for performances abroad.

Attempts to reach Rose’s current management were unsuccessful.

Azoff has represented famous musicians such as The Eagles and Joe Walsh and is currently the executive chairman of Live Nation Entertainment Inc., which recently merged with Ticketmaster Entertainment.

Chaos was narrowly averted at an intimate Guns N’ Roses concert when a man with a knife was tackled by ex-Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach.

The mystery man casually pulled out what appeared to be a switchblade knife as he walked into the packed and uber-exclusive “Nur Khan’s Rose Bar Sessions” at the Gramercy Park Hotel on Sunday.

But Bach, who was standing near the door, immediately got the stranger thrown out of the bash, which was attended by a host of stars including Mickey Rourke.

A witness reports, “The man walked in while Guns N’ Roses was onstage and pulled out a knife and flicked the blade out. Sebastian, who was standing on a banquette said: ‘Nobody is getting anywhere near my man Axl Rose with a knife,’ and went after him. Security then immediately threw him out. The man appeared to be drunk. It was dealt with so quickly that none of the other guests or the band were aware of it.”

The private Valentine’s Day concert was the hottest ticket in town, with a handpicked crowd including the Strokes’ Fabrizio Moretti and Albert Hammond Jr., Ryan Phillippe, Zoe Kravitz, Josh Lucas, Yigal Azrouel and Sophia Bush, who all packed into the Rose Bar for the DeLeon Tequila-sponsored first of Khan’s series of intimate concerts.

Guns N’ Roses played for two hours for 150 guests, finishing up at 3 a.m. before moving the party upstairs with a group of model and rocker friends until 6 a.m.

When earlier asked by The Post’s Brian Niemietz if long metal hair will come back in fashion, Bach said, “If it does, people better start now because it takes seven [bleep]ing years to get it this length.” Flaunting his golden locks, Bach added, “And this isn’t some Jessica [bleep]ing Simpson hair extensions — this is the real deal.” A rep for the Rose Bar declined to comment.