No breach to Bruno Mars, who is actually one of the best accomplished musicians in the business today, but what is the guy accomplishing on the awning of Playboy?

Okay, we'll accord him a pass, because Playmate of the Month Raquel Pomplun additionally appears on the awning (albeit secondarily), and it is the Sex + Music Issue.

Those two things intertwined? Who would've guessed?

The 26-year-old "Grenade" amateur is alone the 10th man to arise on the cover, ever, in about 60 years of Hugh Hefner's publication. Impressive.

Going aback about that far, Bruno Mars says the musicians he looked up to were old school: Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Elvis Presley.

On the artist he’d best like to assignment with if he could, he says Hendrix.

"I anticipate he’s the greatest guitar amateur in the world, and I would appetite to see him do his affair in person. He’s the acumen I best up a guitar in the aboriginal place.”