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

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

Fri, 03 Dec, 2021 - 08:30

Tom Dunne is a music-lover extraordinaire who, as well as presenting radio and TV shows, can also be seen in the wild as the lead singer with Something Happens.

‘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.