Dave Grohl

Dave Grohl’s career collaboration history reads like a Hall of Fame roll call: Nine Inch Nails, Bowie, Paul McCartney, Slash, Iggy, Tom Petty, Stevie Nicks, The Prodigy.But his work with Foo Fighters and Nirvana has made him the most recognisable rock star still at the top of their game today. Martin James’s biography combines first-hand interviews with major players in Dave Grohl’s story with meticulous research to tell the story of one of the most unbelievable careers in the rock industry – and paint a detailed picture of that story’s larger-than-life, bearded hero. The book is fully up-to-date and will cover the release oftheir two latest albums, including the brilliant story behindSonic Highways, in which Dave records the length and breadth of the USA to channel the spirit of America’s finest musicians.

“"Foo Fighters fans and aficionados of rock music in general will relish this book." --Library Journal, 3/15/2016”

"Fascinating." --Guardian

Martin James has contributed to the "Independent" and has also written for the "Independent on Sunday," the "Guardian," "Mojo," "Uncut," "Dazed and Confused" and many others. He is the author of biographies on Moby, The Prodigy, and Fatboy Slim.

Foo Fighters emerged from the morass of suicide and potent musical legacy that was Nirvana to establish themselves against all odds as one of the most popular rock bands in the world. Deflecting early critical disdain, Dave Grohl has single-handedly reinvented himself and cemented his place in the rock pantheon. This is his story, from his pre-Nirvana days in hardcore band Scream to his current status as a festival conquering, Grammy winning, platinum-selling grunge legend. Across the entire body of Foo Fighters albums, the whole legendary Nirvana tale, the pre-history in the nascent Seattle scene and Grohl's flirtations with Queens of the Stone Age and his supergroup side-project Them Crooked Vultures, this is an utterly comprehensive, insightful chronicle of Dave Grohl's remarkable life. Drawing on new interviews with key figures in the Grohl story, this definitive biography of one of modern rock's most influential figures includes the stories of the multi-platinum opus Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace, 2011's Wasting Light, which saw Grohl reunited with Nirvana producer Butch Vig and Sonic Highways, their ambitious homage to coast-to-coast US classic rock.

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