101 Amazing Facts about Foo Fighters

Jack Goldstein

Description

Are you the world's biggest Foo Fighters fan? Or do you want to discover some interesting facts about Dave Grohl's band, generally considered to be the best rock act in the entire world? If so, then this is the book for you! Contained within are more than one hundred amazing facts about everything, from the band's formation and early days of recording all the way to their most recent tour. With sections about each member as well as information on their music, awards and much more, you can find the information you want fast - and the book is perfect for all ages. No fan should be without it!

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 20 août 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781785382147
• Langue: English

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101 AMAZING FACTS ABOUT FOO FIGHTERS
Jack Goldstein
&
Frankie Taylor



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Published in 2015 by
Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
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All facts contained within this book have been researched from reputable sources. If any information is found to be false, please contact the publishers, who will be happy to make corrections for future editions.



Introduction
Are you the world’s biggest Foo Fighters fan? Or do you want to discover some interesting facts about Dave Grohl’s band, generally considered to be the best rock act in the entire world? If so, then this is the book for you! Contained within are more than one hundred amazing facts about everything, from the band’s formation and early days of recording all the way to their most recent tour. With sections about each member as well as information on their music, awards and much more, you can find the information you want fast - and the book is perfect for all ages.
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The Band Foo Fighters (note: not The Foo Fighters) is a band formed in Seattle in 1994. Initially it consisted of just one official member - Dave Grohl. Grohl founded Foo Fighters after his previous band Nirvana had split up due to the death of lead singer Kurt Cobain. Cobain’s history of depression combined with the fact that a ‘suicide’ note was found next to his body and a gunshot wound to his head led the police to declare his death as self-inflicted. Ever since, some have claimed this wasn’t the case, and that his death could actually have been murder. The name Foo Fighters comes from a phrase coined by American pilots in World War II. With the world at conflict, airplanes filled the skies like never before, and many pilots saw things that couldn’t be explained at the time (and some not even now). Officially the phenomena were referred to as unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. Although today some people explain away the things that these pilots saw as freak weather occurrences or atmospheric conditions, many still believe what the WWII pilots did - that they were in fact alien spacecraft. The name those brave pilots un officially used for the UFOs? Foo Fighters. Running with the alien theme, Foo Fighters put all of their releases out on their own record label, Roswell Records. Roswell is a city in New Mexico, USA that is famous for an incident in 1947 where something (official reports since published say a secret Project Mogul surveillance balloon) crashed at a ranch, with conspiracy theorists suggesting it was an extra-terrestrial spaceship. As we note above, Dave Grohl was, at first, the only member of the band. However, he soon recruited Nate Mendel to play bass, William Goldsmith for drums and Pat Smear on guitar. During the recording of the band’s second album, Goldsmith quit so Grohl re-recorded most of the drum parts himself. After recording was complete, Pat Smear also quit. Taylor Hawkins replaced Goldsmith, and Franz Stahl took the place of Smear.