Newsweek - USA (2021-11-26)

For your

cousin who

swears she’ll

never leave

New York City

for anywhere

else on Earth:

For your

musical,

Nirvana-loving

brother:

and Music

By Dave Grohl

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A tribute to the power of

music and an homage

to some of the greatest

rockers of all time,

Nirvana drummer and

Foo Fighters frontman

Grohl’s memoir peels

back the curtain on

what it was like playing

with icons, bringing

readers into his orbit in

a supremely authentic

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moments both peaceful

and heartbreaking, from

the inner workings of

family life as a Grammy-

winning musician to the

moment he heard Kurt

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Compiled by

Shaun Usher

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This slim collection of

letters pays tribute to the

greatest city in the world

(if we do say so our-

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landlord scratches out a

note about the trash left

behind after his “usually

large parties,” while the

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New York Post about

one of its articles, among

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