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Niall Doherty

Lenny Kravitz once asked Dave Grohl to play drums on an unfinished Michael Jackson song, but it didn't quite go to plan

Musician Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters performs on VH1 Storytellers, Lenny Kravitz poses at the Wonderwall portrait studio, Michael Jackson poses at a press conference before a date on his HIStory world tour in 1996

Dave Grohl is not short of guest slots across his career to boast about. He’s leant his muscular groove drumming prowess to a variety of ace songs, a number of which are ace songs precisely because they’ve got Dave Grohl drumming on them. 

He’s sat behind the kit for Nine Inch Nails, Liam Gallagher, The Prodigy, Tenacious D, Tom Petty and many more, but Grohl’s favourite tale to tell of his extra-curricular activity is the time Lenny Kravitz enlisted him to drum on an old Michael Jackson tune the pair had co-written. Unfortunately, it's his favourite tale to tell because they ended up taking the Dave Grohl out of Dave Grohl. Allow him to explain:

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