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Foo Fighters — Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Tom Doyle, Q, June 1996

HOLD TIGHT! Hang on to your 'cookies'! Belt up! For the Foo Fighters are taking off, turning their backs on the mucky, resonant demise of leader Dave Grohl's old band, Nirvana. Two million albums later the "grunge Ringo" tells Tom Doyle, "I'm not going to be some fucking pitiful mess."

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