Dave Grohl. Image via Twitter @KerrangMagazine
From rock to pop: Dave Grohl wants to play the drums for ABBA
Dave Grohl has offered to play drums for ABBA and admitted he was an emotional mess listening to their first new music in almost four decades.
Dave Grohl. Image via Twitter @KerrangMagazine
Dave Grohl has offered to play the drums for ABBA after he “wept like a baby” listening to their comeback single.
The Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana sticksman is a massive fan of the Dancing Queen hitmakers and was overwhelmed with emotion hearing I Still Have Faith In You, one of the Swedish pop group’s first new tunes in almost four decades.
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DAVE GROHL IS A BIG ABBA FAN
Appearing on BBC Breakfast on Thursday morning 30 September, the Everlong rocker gushed:
“Oh my god, I’m such a big ABBA fan. When I saw that they were coming back and they had a record, I shot that link to 100 people I knew, then listened to the new song and wept like a baby. I cried like a baby. Oh man!”
On what made him teary about the ballad, he said:
“It almost sounded like time hadn’t passed. Plus it was such a beautiful, romantic, melancholy, bitter-sweet retrospective. Ugh, it’s amazing. ABBA can do no wrong.”
When asked if he’d be willing to play the drums for the Waterloo band, he replied:
“Listen, I will get up and play drums at the opening of an envelope. Show me a drum set and I will sit down to it. So yes, I would play with Abba.”
DAVE GROHL: ‘EVERYBODY LOVES ABBA!’
Three years ago, the Learn to Fly rocker sported an old school band shirt with the Fernando group’s name on it during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he confessed he loves the 1974 Eurovision winners and explained that he rocked the top because he was excited about their long-awaited return.
He told the talk show host: “I heard ABBA was doing more music, there’s an ABBA comeback, and I flipped out,” Grohl said.”
When Jimmy asked if he is a fan, Dave replied:
“Who doesn’t love ABBA?! Everybody loves ABBA!”
ABBA’S COMEBACK
As well as releasing new music on the upcoming album, Voyage, ABBA – comprising Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad – are performing digitally with a live 10-piece band next year as part of the ABBA Voyage run.
The Thank You For The Music hitmakers has teamed up with an 850-strong team from Industrial Light & Magic – the company founded by George Lucas – to create digital versions of themselves for the concert, using months of motion-capture and performance techniques.
The Voyage concert experience will open on May 27 2022 at the ABBA Arena, which is a state-of-the-art 3,000 capacity arena located at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London.
The concert will feature ABBA’s two new tracks, also including Don’t Shut Me Down, as well as songs from their new album.
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