Tom Dunne's Music & Me: I was left feeling unsatisfied by Dave Grohl

I've finally got around to reading Dave Grohl's memoir, but am curious about the stuff he's left out 
Tom Dunne's Music & Me: I was left feeling unsatisfied by Dave Grohl

 Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters. Picture: Ian Gavan/Getty Images 

‘Tis the season to read autobiographies and I seem to be knee deep in them. Bob Mortimer’s And Away, was particularly excellent. Billy Connolly’s Windswept and Interesting was a hard but wonderfully engaging read. So why was David Grohl’s The Storyteller just a little bit flat?

It is an amazing tale. His band The Foo Fighters are one of a tiny crop of bands - Coldplay, Radiohead, U2, McCartney et al – big enough to headline Glastonbury. Raised in a small house just 12 miles south of Washington DC, he has played America’s most famous house, the white one, several times.

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