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Fight Songs: 10 rock anthems attacking well-known rock stars
By Paul Brannigan published
The real world isn't a hippy paradise where we all love one another, and some musicians aren't shy about calling out rivals

"I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for Scream": Watch Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl dedicate an emotional Everlong to the late Kent Stax, the drummer he replaced in Scream, before joining Nirvana
By Paul Brannigan published
Dave Grohl salutes Kent Stax, "one of the best punk rock drummers of all time"

"They were just nodding out in bed, just wasted. It was disgusting and gross": The night Dave Grohl finally realised that his Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love were abusing heroin
By Paul Brannigan published
On January 11, 1992, Nirvana's Nevermind album hit number 1 in the US, and the band played Saturday Night Live for the first time. That same day, Dave Grohl realised his friends were using heroin

“Of any song that I've ever written, it's most blatantly about my time in Nirvana”: the story behind the Foo Fighters song Dave Grohl wrote about his Nirvana bandmates while crashing on Kurt Cobain's couch
By Paul Brannigan published
"He plays an old guitar, with a coin found by the phone": the story behind Dave Grohl's tender tribute to Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain

"Steve Davis said, I saw you play, I really enjoyed it": Napalm Death's Shane Embury on playing Glastonbury, bonding with snooker legend Steve Davis and the Dave Grohl grindcore jam that sadly never came to pass
By Paul Brannigan published
On June 22, 2017, Napalm Death became the first grindcore band to play Glastonbury festival. Bassist Shane Embury looks back on a surreal and special day

"It would just have reminded me of being back in Nirvana. It would have been sad, for me personally": Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl on why he turned down joining Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
By Liz Scarlett published
Tom Petty once asked Dave Grohl to become an official Heartbreaker, but the Foo Fighters frontman wasn't keen

10 surprising Elton John covers by rock and metal bands
By Simon Young published
From Queens of the Stone Age and Dave Grohl to the most offensive grindcore band ever, these reimagined Elton John songs are worth your time and ears

Watch Guns N' Roses play Paradise City with Dave Grohl at Glastonbury
By Fraser Lewry published
Dave Grohl had a bigger Glastonbury weekend than most, rounding off a busy schedule by guesting with Guns N' Roses

"I meet people and I can tell in two seconds whether they’re a rocker or not": Across 40 years playing music, here are 10 life lessons Dave Grohl has learned
By Paul Brannigan published
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has learned a thing or two across his storied career

How Dave Grohl initiated a Nirvana reunion of sorts on Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light
By Niall Doherty published
"The three of us together sitting in front of speakers and a mixing desk, that hasn’t happened in 20 years": How Dave Grohl got Butch Vig and Krist Novoselic involved in Foo Fighter’s seventh record
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