{"id":291729,"date":"2025-11-30T17:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/291729\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T17:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T17:02:11","slug":"the-only-song-dave-grohl-wishes-he-had-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/291729\/","title":{"rendered":"The only song Dave Grohl wishes he had written"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dave<\/p>\n

(Credits: Far Out \/ Raphael Pour-Hashemi)<\/p>\n

Sun 30 November 2025 12:43, UK <\/p>\n

As one of the most revered forces in modern rock, Dave Grohl\u2019s love of The Beatles<\/a> is well-documented.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite rising to fame as a member of one of the most iconoclastic guitar outfits of the 1990s, Grohl is a self-professed student of pop music. Indeed, it was Kurt Cobain\u2019s own respect for the Fab Four\u2019s pop craft that allowed the underground no-wave outfit to rise to such great heights. Behind all the angst, they weren\u2019t ever venturing too far from structures established by The Beatles.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019s often the pop side of the band that Grohl prefers to the experimental side of the group. Grohl has often talked about his affection for The Beatles\u2019 1970 album Abbey Road. During a conversation with BBC Radio 2 back in 2019, the Foo Fighters frontman was even asked to pick his favourite track from the album. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe one that stands out to me the most, and has always been my favourite from that record, is called \u2018I Want You (She\u2019s So Heavy)\u2019,\u201d he said. \u201cI love heavy music, I love Black Sabbath, I love Mot\u00f6rhead, but I think that nothing is heavier, melodically darker and deeper than the riff in this song.\u201d<\/p>\n

It broods and booms with an eeriness that weighs a ton. And the Foo Fighters\u2019 man\u2019s praise doesn\u2019t stop there, either. Grohl has been noted to speak candidly about his love of the Fab Four whenever he\u2019s got the chance<\/a>. During the same conversation in 2019, the former Nirvana drummer revealed a host of his favourite tunes from the band, including \u2018Hey Bulldog\u2019, \u2018Something\u2019, \u2018Taxman\u2019, \u2018Because\u2019 and many more.<\/p>\n

Grohl also revealed that the 1965 song \u2018In My Life\u2019 holds a special place in his heart after it was played at his friend and former bandmate Kurt Cobain\u2019s funeral service. \u201cIt means a lot to me, because it was the song that was played at Kurt Cobain\u2019s memorial,\u201d Grohl explained to Radio 2. \u201cThat day, after everyone had said their piece, this next song came over the speakers and everyone got to celebrate Kurt\u2019s love of The Beatles<\/a> one last time together\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>The Beatles\u2019 1968 press photo. (Credits: Far Out \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

When it comes to actual songcraft, however, Grohl is more interested in John Lennon\u2019s solo material. Dave\u2019s Nirvana bandmate Kurt Cobain was equally obsessed with Lennon. During a 1993 interview with Rolling Stone, Cobain said: \u201cJohn Lennon was definitely my favourite Beatle,<\/a> hands down. I don\u2019t know who wrote what parts of what Beatles songs, but McCartney embarrasses me. Lennon was obviously disturbed [laughs]. So I could relate to that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cobain was rightly fascinated by Lennon\u2019s ambiguous relationship with fame. Of course, that same notoriety allowed the former Beatle an important, unprecedented platform, one he used to share a message for peace. Few songs are as demonstrative of Lennon\u2019s effort to use music as a tool for social change as 1971\u2019s \u2018Imagine\u2019 from the album of the same name.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really wish that I had written \u2018Imagine\u2019,\u201d Grohl said in an interview for the Red Bulletin<\/a>, \u201cBecause it\u2019s such a beautiful song with a really timeless quality \u2013 the song just never sounds old. When I was young and I first started playing guitar \u2013 around the age of ten or eleven years old \u2013 I would sit and strum along to [John Lennon\u2019s] records all day long. That\u2019s how I learned to play guitar \u2013 John was my teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n

Inspired by Yoko Ono\u2019s 1964 book Grapefruit (a sort of forerunner to Brian Eno\u2019s Oblique Strategies for artists), \u2018Imagine\u2019 tends to divide Beatles fans. And for good reason. The track was written by Lennon from the comfort of his expansive mansion on the Tittenhurst Park estate, which certainly makes it harder to take Lennon\u2019s call for ordinary people to \u201cimagine no possessions\u201d seriously.<\/p>\n

Grohl doesn\u2019t seem to mind, though. He, like so many other listeners, found the humility at the centre of the track. While Lennon and many of his fans would later deride the tune as nothing more than pop poetry \u2013 and saccharine verse at that \u2013 Grohl saw the nugget of heartening empathy at the root of the track\u2019s creation, and the melody can\u2019t be disputed either.<\/p>\n

Speaking about the iconic song, Lennon himself commented that it was \u201cAnti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, anti-capitalistic, but because it is sugarcoated, it is accepted \u2026 Now I understand what you have to do. Put your political message across with a little honey.\u201d <\/p>\n

That sense of important messaging fit for the masses is something that the Nirvana drummer has always adored and admired in Lennon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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