Dave Grohl made the first Foo Fighters album more out of necessity than anything else. The ex-Nirvana drummer was in a dark place after the death of Kurt Cobain, uncertain of what his next step would be and unsure if he’d ever play music again. He certainly couldn’t face to listen to any.
“Losing Kurt was earth-shattering,” he told 60 Minutes presenter Anderson Cooper in 2014. “I was afraid of music after he died. If I heard a song that even touched on an emotion in me, I would turn it off. I was so terrified because to me, that’s what music always was. It was a direct connection to my heart.”
