'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g
lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been
in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw
his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups.
He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo
Fighters, from brotherhood to bitter rivalry, from
breathless highs to lifeless lows, Paul Brannigan gives
an unparalleled, intimate and extraordinary account of
the life and times of Dave Grohl. In 1990, little-known
punk-metal upstarts Nirvana added a new drummer to the
band. They were soon to become a global phenomenon - but
as we all know, things went wrong. Dave's friend Kurt,
frontman of Nirvana, took his own life, plunging the
band and their future into chaos. His friends' grief was
mirrored by worldwide sorrow to an unprecedented degree.
Defying expectations, a knack that was soon to become
his trademark, Grohl refused to see it as the end. In
1995 his new band, the Foo Fighters, rose to join the
pantheon of rock deities. The 'wonder years' were by no
means calm.The spotlit existence imposed by his
celebrity status, the bellowed vilification by his
critics and his high-speed lifestyle proved a dangerous
cocktail. With an account of Grohl's life that is more
personal than anything written before, more startling,
more thrilling, more heart-rending and more inspiring,
Paul Brannigan reveals Dave fully for the first time.
This is the story of the man who changed music forever.
And he's not finished yet. |
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