Synopsis
Everyone from Sir Paul McCartney and Jimmy Page to Queens of the Stone Age now relishes the chance to share a stage with Dave Grohl and his legendary Foo Fighters. The question is: why? Musical depth? Not really. Major success? Well, yes. Despite no longer shifting albums in the same quantity as they did twenty years ago, this band will fill Wembley Stadium for two nights in summer.
Long before Kurt Cobain blew his brains out in 1994, Dave Grohl was planning for a life after Nirvana. The unflinching bright sunlight to Cobain's permanent midnight darkness, Grohl had come from a similar broken home to his erstwhile band leader, but came out of the experience differently - brimming with positivity and a shrewd grasp of opportunities in the music industry.
Did Grohl merely take the sonic blueprint of Nirvana and embellish it with a more life-affirming pop sheen? Of course he did. Every band in America that sold over a million records in the post-grunge 90s did the same. The difference was that Grohl had real credibility. And he knew it.
With exclusive testimony from true insiders (including Krist Novoselic, Grohl's bass-playing partner in Nirvana, ex-girlfirends, record company executives, tour photographers and confidantes), this book is an exploration of the real story behind Grohl and the Foo Fighters - the only serious literary biography of the group and its leader, one of the most famous and critically bulletproof rock figures of the 21st century.
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Product Description
The world was still reeling from Kurt Cobain's death and the subsequent demise of Nirvana when Dave Grohl - who at that point was known only as the drummer of the grunge legends - headed back to DC and emerged with a brand new band called the Foo Fighters.
Grohl locked himself away in a studio and recorded the Foo Fighters' debut album in less than a week. After producing a limited number of album copies, the Foo Fighters became the object of an intense record company bidding war.
Acquiring the skills of Nate Mendel, William Goldsmith, Pat Smear and later Taylor Hawkins, the Foo Fighters have gone on to become one of the most successful rock bands of the modern era. Creating a heavy yet commercial sound, the Foos have achieved platinum selling albums, Billboard chart No.1s and sell-out tours. But with the success came disagreements and discrepancies due to Grohl's commitments with the Queens of the Stone Age, which led to one of the darkest times in the band's history and quartet nearly breaking up.
From Grohl playing all the instruments on the band's first album to entertaining an 86,000 sell-out crowd at Wembley, the Foo Fighters have grown to establish themselves as rock royalty. This book tells the full and at times often shocking tale of one of the world's biggest rock bands.
Book Description
The definitive, no-holds-barred biography of one of the biggest-selling rock bands in the world, the Foo Fighters.
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