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Dave Grohl
David Eric Grohl is an American musician and songwriter. He founded the rock band Foo Fighters, of which he is the lead singer, guitarist, principal songwriter, and only consistent member. He first gained fame as the drummer of the grunge band Nirvana, from 1990 until the band's end in 1994.
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Born 14 January 1969 · Q12006
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2026· 37 entries
“Dave had me do 96 takes of one song, and I had to do 13 hours”
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TN: Foo Fighters será telonero de AC/DC por una noche: así lo celebró Dave Grohl
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Radio Concierto Chile - Sólo grandes canciones: Dave Grohl cumple un anhelo antes del regreso de Foo Fighters a Chile: "es un sueño hecho realidad" - Radio Concierto Chile
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STLtoday.com: Foo Fighters join AC/DC for St. Louis show. 'Literally a dream come true,' Dave Grohl says
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rockandpop.cl: Foo Fighters cumplirá el sueño de millones de fans y de Dave Grohl por una sola noche
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BraveWords: AC/DC Announce Special Guests FOO FIGHTERS “For One Night Only” – “This Is Literally A Dream Come True,” Says DAVE GROHL
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Rock Cellar Magazine: Foo Fighters to support AC/DC Sept. 8 in St. Louis -- Dave Grohl is excited about it
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Yahoo News UK: AC/DC Joins Forces With ’90s Rock Legends Fronted by Dave Grohl for One-Night-Only Show
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Far Out Magazine: The hurtful 1995 song Dave Grohl didn’t want to play: “Fuck this song”
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The Lufkin Daily News: Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl addresses the crowd at the band's Aug. 4, 2026 tour kickoff in Toronto. Foo Fighters are playing stadiums in North America through Oct. 4, 2026.
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Central Oregon Daily: Dave Grohl powers through 3-hour Foo Fighters marathon concert
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Radio X: What does Dave Grohl whisper in Everlong by Foo Fighters?
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Far Out Magazine: The “incredible” 1984 record Dave Grohl knew would never happen again
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Clarin.com: Dave Grohl, ex baterista de Nirvana y líder de Foo Fighters: “Después de la muerte de Kurt Cobain me fui solo a Irlanda y lo único que quería era desaparecer hasta que vi a un chico con una camiseta del grupo”
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Published video “THANK YOU NASHVILLE!!! 🤘 A proper send off for Nissan Stadium!!!”.
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La Tercera: Foo Fighters vuelve a Chile: así es el show que Dave Grohl prepara para el Parque Estadio Nacional
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Wikimetal: O motivo que levou Kurt Cobain a chamar Dave Grohl para o Nirvana
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98 Rock Baltimore: Amelia's Bits & Bytes 8/14: Grohl/Homme Go Shopping, Axl Rose Had TMJ Surgery, Creepy AI Billy Joel, Shane Gillis Avoids Trump Photo, Colbert Gets Nine Emmy Nominations, Magooby's Second Location And More Pop Culture News
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RockFM: Josh Homme se lleva a Dave Grohl de compras a una tienda de caza y pesca, con resultados tan hilarantes como esperarías
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Consequence of Sound: Josh Homme Takes Dave Grohl to Bass Pro Shops for the First Time: Watch
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Blunt Magazine: Josh Homme Has Turned Bass Pro Shops Into A Tour Tradition, And Dave Grohl Is Now Involved
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Loudwire: Queens of the Stone Age's Bass Pro Shops Trip With Dave Grohl
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infocronos.com.ar: En cancha de River, Foo Fighters y Dave Grohl vuelven a la Argentina después de cinco años
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98 Rock Baltimore: Learn to Fly (fish): Watch Dave Grohl tour Bass Pro Shops with Josh Homme
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The Independent: Dave Grohl visits a Bass Pro Shop for the first time
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Yahoo Lifestyle Canada: Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl gets his mind blown as he visits iconic store for the first time
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Published video “GOOD TIMES IN THE HEART OF IT ALL: OHIO!!!”.
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Published video “Garage Tour: released 15 years ago this week!!!”.
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Published video “@BBC6Music Artist In Residence: AAA !!!”.
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Published video “Times Like These - The Bell Tower Beats of Anfield Road Primary School (Liverpool, England)”.
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Published video “ANOTHER EPIC NIGHT IN LIVERPOOL!!! 🎥: Harris Tomlinson-Spence”.
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Published video “‘Your Favorite Toy’ pressed exclusively to zoetrope disc for Blood Records!!!”.
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Published video “OF ALL PEOPLE OFFICIAL VIDEO OUT NOW!!! Starring extreme snowless skiers from the BPC.”.
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Published video “Foo Fighters - Of All People (Official Video)”.
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Published video “Things get spicy on @FirstWeFeast's Hot Ones Versus 🌶️ Watch now! #hotones #ranch”.
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The Foo Fighters released a new single, "Of All People", from their 12th studio album, Your Favorite Toy, released on April 24, 2026
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2024· 2 entries
AFP Fact Check rated the claim “An image shows Dave Grohl in a MAGA hat” Altered picture.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Authentic photograph shows Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl wearing a MAGA hat indicating support of former U.S. President Donald Trump.” Fake.
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2023· 2 entries
Claimed: “Canada is to thank for American football.” — rated Mostly True by PolitiFact.
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Released album “The Hanukkah Sessions 2022”.
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2022· 5 entries
Grohl duetted with Paul McCartney when he headlined the Glastonbury Festival
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The self-titled Dream Widow EP was released to digital streaming services featuring eight tracks ranging from thrash, death and extreme metal
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BOOM Fact Check rated the claim “Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Queen, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Dave Grohl, Joni Mitchell, Pearl Jam, Dolly Parton are removing their music from Spotify in solidarity with Neil Young.” False.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Springsteen; Pearl Jam; Dave Grohl; All Remove Music From Spotify!” No Exodus.
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And the Foo Fighters starred as themselves in the comedy horror film Studio 666
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2021· 9 entries
Released album “The Hanukkah Sessions 2021”.
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Released album “The Hanukkah Sessions 2020”.
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Grohl's memoir The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music was published by Dey Street Books
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Released album “The Storyteller”.
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Snopes rated the claim “Mick Jagger can be viewed as a COVID-19 lockdown skeptic/critic based on the lyrics in his latest song “Easy Sleazy” with Dave Grohl released in April 2021.” False.
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Following delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic
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Grohl directed What Drives Us, a feature-length documentary on van touring
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To Darin Wall, of the Seattle metal band Greyhawk, after Wall was shot in the leg
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Grohl released an autobiography, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music
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2020· 1 entry
VERA Files rated the claim “Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl tested positive for COVID-19.” Fake.
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2018· 2 entries
Grohl released "Play", a solo recording lasting over 22 minutes
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Released album “Play”.
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2017· 1 entry
Foo Fighters released their ninth studio album Concrete and Gold, which became the band's second album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200
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2016· 2 entries
Grohl lent his throne to Axl Rose of Guns N' Roses after Rose broke his foot
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Rolling Stone ranked Grohl the 27th-best drummer of all time
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2015· 5 entries
Grohl appeared on an episode of The Muppets where he competed in a "drum off" with Animal
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Grohl posted a personal reply to Fabio Zaffagnini, Marco Sabiu, and the 1,000 participants of the "Rockin' 1000" project in Cesena, Italy, thanking them for their combined performance of the Foo Fighters' song "Learn to
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While playing a show in Gothenburg, Sweden, Grohl fell off the stage, breaking his leg
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David Letterman selected Grohl and the Foo Fighters to play "Everlong" as the last musical guest on the final episode of Late Show with David Letterman
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In 2015, Grohl sold his 3,088-square-foot (286.9 m2) beachfront house in Oxnard, California, for $2.9 million.
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2014· 2 entries
Foo Fighters released their eighth studio album, Sonic Highways, which reached number two in the United States
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Grohl was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Nirvana
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2013· 4 entries
Grohl played drums at the 2013 Country Music Association Awards, replacing drummer Chris Fryar in the Zac Brown Band
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Grohl delivered a keynote speech at the 2013 South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas
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Followed by the 2014 documentary miniseries Sonic Highways and the 2021 documentary film What Drives Us
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Grohl produced and directed the documentary Sound City, about the history of the famed Sound City Studios recording studios in Van Nuys
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2012· 1 entry
Following the departure of Joey Castillo from Queens of the Stone Age, Grohl performed on some tracks as drummer on their 2013 album
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2011· 2 entries
Appeared in the SNL Digital Short "Helen Mirren's Magical Bosom" and the sketch "Bongo's Clown Room"
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In a June 2011 interview, Grohl revealed that he was going deaf in his left ear due to decades of performing on stage.
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2010· 4 entries
Grohl performed with Tenacious D at BlizzCon
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Appeared as a middle-aged punk rock drummer reuniting the group "Crisis of Conformity" (fronted by Fred Armisen) after 25 years in a skit later on in the episode
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Grohl helped write and perform on drums for "Watch This" with guitarist Slash and Duff McKagan on Slash's self-titled album that also included many other famous artists
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“I remember being in the same room with them and thinking,”
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2009· 5 entries
In the UK and November 17, 2009, in the US
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Foo Fighters released their first Greatest Hits collection, consisting of 16 tracks including a previously unreleased acoustic version of "Everlong" and two new tracks "Wheels" and "Word Forward" which were produced by N
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With a surprise appearance at Brixton Academy in London, supporting the Arctic Monkeys
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“I still dream about Kurt. Every time I see him in a dream, I’ll be amazed and I get this feeling that everyone else thinks he’s dead. It always feels totally real, probably because I’m a very vivid dreamer. But, in my dreams, Kurt’s usually been hiding - we’ll get together and I’ll end up asking him, ‘God, where have you been?”
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“Perez [Hilton]: Are you drunk right now?Grohl: No, I gotta play.Perez: Britney Spears has been getting wasted all the time, hasn't stopped her.Grohl: Yeah, but she doesn't have to sing live.”
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2007· 2 entries
Followed by the third single, "Let It Die", on June 24, 2008
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Performed in the SNL Digital Short "People Getting Punched Just Before Eating"
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2004· 1 entry
Grohl drummed on six tracks for Nine Inch Nails' 2005 album With Teeth and played percussion on one more, later returning to play drums on 'The Idea of You' from their 2016 EP Not the Actual Events
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2003· 2 entries
Grohl stepped behind the kit to perform on Killing Joke's second self-titled album
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At the 45th Annual Grammy Awards, Grohl performed in an ad hoc supergroup with Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, and Steven Van Zandt in tribute to the recently deceased singer/guitarist Joe Strummer
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2002· 2 entries
Grohl achieved a historical milestone by replacing himself on the top of the Billboard modern rock chart, when "You Know You're Right" by Nirvana was replaced by "All My Life" by Foo Fighters
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Grohl helped Chan Marshall of Cat Power on the album You Are Free and played with Queens of the Stone Age on their album Songs for the Deaf
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2001· 1 entry
Grohl performed on Tenacious D's debut album, and appeared in the video for lead single "Tribute" as a demon
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2000· 2 entries
The band recruited Queen guitarist Brian May to add some guitar flourish to a cover of Pink Floyd's "Have a Cigar", a song which Foo Fighters previously recorded as a B-side
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Played drums and sang on a track, "Goodbye Lament", for Tony Iommi's album Iommi
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Touch”.
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1996· 1 entry
They separated in December 1996 and divorced in 1997; Grohl admitted to infidelity.
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1995· 2 entries
“Masturbation is one of the safest ways to explore your own sexuality.”
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Assembled a full band to tour and record under the Foo Fighters name
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1994· 1 entry
Grohl played drums on two tracks for Mike Watt's Ball-Hog or Tugboat
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1993· 2 entries
Grohl was recruited to help recreate the music of the Beatles' early years for the movie Backbeat
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From 1993 to 1997, Grohl owned a house in Shoreline, Washington.
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1992· 2 entries
Grohl has been a musical guest on Saturday Night Live 15 times—more than any other musician
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Played drums on Buzz Osborne's Kiss-styled solo-EP King Buzzo; he was credited as "Dale Nixon", a pseudonym that Greg Ginn adopted to play bass on Black Flag's My War
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1990· 2 entries
Scream unexpectedly disbanded mid-tour following the departure of their bassist, Skeeter Thompson
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Grohl became the drummer for Nirvana
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1986· 1 entry
At age 17, Grohl joined the punk rock band Scream, replacing drummer Kent Stax
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1969· 2 entries
Born 1969-01-14.
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The son of teacher Virginia Jean (née Hanlon) and newswriter James Harper Grohl
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