1- Foo Fighters have shared the stage with everyone from Queen and Rush to Led Zeppelin and former Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman John Fogerty
2-Foo Fighters is an American rock band, formed in Seattle, Washington in 1994
3- Keeping with his alien fascination, Grohl named his record company Roswell after the city in New Mexico where a supposed flying saucer crashed on a ranch in 1947.
4- Learn To Fly broke the record for being the longest ‘rock radio’ No.1 in Canada.
5- The first instrument Dave learnt to play was the trombone.
6- The track off 2007’s Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace refers to an “intravenous, intertwined” couple, and Grohl confirmed that the line refers to his late bandmate Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love.
7- Foo Fighters have been honored with three The Kerrang! Awards, one of Britain’s most recognised award by the now-defunct Guinness Book of British Hit Singles & Albums.
8- In the year 2011 and also in 2014, Foo Fighters were amed as the Radio Contraband “Major Label Artist of the Year.”
9- Their first album was a solo project for Dave Grohl because he didn’t have a band yet.
10- Grohl often chews gum before and during their sets, which keeps his mouth from getting dry. He prefers Dentyne Ice, and says, “Onstage, I need a minty-fresh microphone.”
11- Foo Fighters played on Letterman’s very last show, and Letterman has said that they are his favorite band, and “Everlong” is his favorite song.
12- Grohl once happened to fall off stage and break his leg in Sweden, due to which the band had to cancel the European tour
13- As Grohl was putting together the band to tour, he and his former Nirvana bandmate discussed playing together again, but ultimately decided against it
14- Grohl reportedly had a Grammy award as a doorstep for several years as he said that without the award, his bedroom would trap him inside and even swallow him. The said award is now on a shelf, after it was replaced by a MTV Video Music Award.
15- Foo Fighters covered Prince’s “Darling Nikki” in 2003, and Prince was not very happy about it. Four years later, Prince covered their hit “Best of You” during his Super Bowl halftime performance.
16- Prior to joining the Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins was the drummer for Alanis Morissette. Rumors have been spread that they had quite the chemistry together.
17- All Foo Fighters songs are released on Grohl’s independently owned label, Roswell Records.
18- Seven months after Kurt Cobain tragically put an end to Nirvana, Grohl sat in with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers when they played ‘Saturday Night Live.’ He later declined Petty’s offer of a full-time gig.
19- Dave Grohl’s mother, Virginia Hanlon Grohl, is a former English teacher, who published her first book at the age of 79 in 2017
20- Foo Fighter” was a World War II-era term that Allied aircraft pilots used to identify weird flying objects from the UFOs and various aerial phenomena.
21- The Foo Fighters’ seventh studio album, Wasting Light, was recorded using all analog audio equipment.
Sources
http://diffuser.fm/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-foo-fighters/
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/foo-fighters