Monsters ; What Do You Do If You Were in Nirvana and Made Enough Cash to Retire

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The foundation of my life was music and when Kurt died it was just pulled out from under my feet. My world fell apart. It was heartbreaking just to listen to music. I couldn't turn on the radio, much less pick up a pair of drumsticks. Then eventually I realised that the only thing that was going to help me through was music, so I started writing and making my own. But it was traumatic.' Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters' front-man and former Nirvana drummer, leans back on the sofa in his suite at the sumptuous Covent Garden Hotel, London and pauses to reflect once again on the event that determined the shape of his life: the suicide in 1994 of Nirvana's lead singer Kurt Cobain.

'It was really difficult to imagine being in a band again,' he continues. 'A band is a powerful relationship between three or four people and when any band ends it's a break-up, a death, a loss and it takes a long time to get over something like that.

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Monsters ; What Do You Do If You Were in Nirvana and Made Enough Cash to Retire

'When Nirvana were starting out we signed to a major label but had no idea of the success that was about to happen. We had no idea that we were going to sell millions of records. We knew we had good songs and that we were going to make a decent album but none of us, not even the record company, expected that to happen.' Indeed, DGC Records originally...

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