{"id":669805,"date":"2026-10-30T11:32:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669805\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:32:13","slug":"foo-fighters-close-out-kimmel-residency-with-baker-street-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/669805\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters Close Out \u2018Kimmel\u2019 Residency With \u2018Baker Street\u2019 Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tFoo Fighters<\/a>\u00a0Week on Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live came to a close in the small hours of Friday morning, with another oldie, but a goodie.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe choice of song, a cover of the late Gerry Rafferty<\/a>\u2019s classic \u201cBaker Street,\u201d well, it was no secret. Foos frontman Dave Grohl told us what to expect earlier in the week, during his interview with Kimmel.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tFor Grohl, \u201cBaker Street\u201d is a proper guilty pleasure. \u201cI don\u2019t know if anyone remembers Gerry Rafferty. \u2018Right Down The Line,\u2019 \u2018Baker Street\u2019. He was in Stealers Wheel, \u2018Stuck In The Middle With You.\u2019 \u2018Baker Street\u2019 is one of my favorite songs of all time,\u201d he recounted. \u201cIt reminds me of being young in the \u201870s. And driving around with my mom in the front seat, with AM radio on. It is truly one of my favorite songs of all time. We\u2019ll rock that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tThey sure did. The Foos, as they\u2019ve done for the four consecutive nights, cranked the guitars, Grohl engaged in some gentle headbanging, and Ilan Rubin channeled Animal from behind the kit. No, the Foos didn\u2019t augment their lineup with a synth of a saxophone player, instead lead guitarist Chris Shiflett interpreted that famous riff.<\/p>\n

\n\tRafferty, the Scottish-born singer and songwriter, enjoyed a global hit with \u201cBaker Street,\u201d which peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1978, one of his six solo appearances on the chart. He died from liver failure in 2011, following a long battle with alcoholism.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBaker Street\u201d was the Foos\u2019 only cover on Fallon this week<\/a>, after performances of \u201cWindow\u201d from the rock act\u2019s 12th and latest studio album, Your Favorite Toy; 1995 ripper \u201cThis Is A Call,\u201d from the band\u2019s self-titled debut; and \u201cYour Favorite Toy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Foos\u2019 world tour has this year taken the Rock Hall-inductees through North America, across Europe, and next week gets underway in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWatch Foo Fighters\u2019 performance of \u201cBaker Street\u201d below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters\u00a0Week on Jimmy Kimmel Live came to a close in the small hours of Friday morning, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[13724,93,15882,61,60,13939,282],"class_list":["post-669805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bbnews","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-rock","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kimmel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}