DAVE GROHL BIOGRAPHY
ONE BY ONE: Loss, Reinvention, and the Music That Saved HimBy Daniel R. Hargreaves
Length3h 19m
About this audiobook
He lost his best friend to fame's darkest edge at twenty-five. He lost his closest creative partner of twenty-five years the same way the world least expected. And in between, and after, he built two of the most beloved rock bands in modern history, one song, one loss, one act of quiet rebuilding at a time.
Dave Grohl taught himself guitar at twelve, dropped out of high school at seventeen to tour with a hardcore punk band, and lied about his age to get the gig. By twenty-one, he was the drummer for Nirvana, playing on an album that would end an entire era of American rock overnight and turn three underground musicians into the reluctant voice of a generation. By twenty-five, he was standing in the wreckage of it, his best friend and bandmate gone, the music that had defined his entire life suddenly too painful to even listen to.
What he did next has become one of the most remarkable second acts in the history of popular music, six days alone in a recording studio, playing every instrument himself, turning grief into the foundation of Foo Fighters before he had any idea whether anyone would ever hear it. Nearly three decades later, when he lost his drummer and closest friend, Taylor Hawkins, in eerily similar circumstances, he did the exact same thing again, because, in his own words, it had saved him once before.
This biography traces the full, unflinching arc of that story: the self-taught kid from Ohio and Virginia, the underground hardcore scene that shaped him, the audition that changed rock history, the friendship that ended in tragedy, the six days that built a second legendary band, the twenty-five-year partnership with Taylor Hawkins that gave that band its heart, the devastating loss that nearly broke it again, and the very public reckoning with his own choices that has defined Grohl's most recent, most difficult chapter yet.
Built entirely from verified interviews, documented history, and Grohl's own words across three decades of public life, ONE BY ONE does not flinch from the difficult chapters, the perfectionism that once cost a loyal bandmate his position, the affair that shook his marriage, the four hundred and thirty therapy sessions spent trying to repair it. This is not a hagiography. It is the story of an extraordinary, deeply human life, told honestly, one choice at a time.
For readers of rock biography, music history, and stories of resilience built not on a single triumphant moment but on the accumulated, imperfect work of getting back up, again and again, for over thirty years.
Audiobook details
GenreOther, Biography and Memoir
Length3 hrs 19 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
2FOREWORD
3ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
4INTRODUCTION: ONE BY ONE
5CHAPTER ONE: WARREN, OHIO, AND A FAMILY COMING APART
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6CHAPTER TWO: TEACHING HIMSELF TO HEAR
7CHAPTER THREE: DROPPING OUT TO PLAY
8CHAPTER FOUR: THE AUDITION THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING
9CHAPTER FIVE: NEVERMIND AND THE ALBUM THAT BROKE THE WORLD OPEN
10CHAPTER SIX: TOURING, TENSION, AND THE MACHINERY OF FAME
11CHAPTER SEVEN: APRIL 1994
12CHAPTER EIGHT: THE STUDIO AS THERAPY
13CHAPTER NINE: FOO FIGHTERS IS BORN
14CHAPTER TEN: BUILDING A BAND, BUILDING AN IDENTITY
15CHAPTER ELEVEN: BEYOND THE BAND, COLLABORATOR, DRUMMER, STORYTELLER
16CHAPTER TWELVE: A DECADE OF ALBUMS, A GROWING LEGACY
17CHAPTER THIRTEEN: "THE NICEST GUY IN ROCK"
18CHAPTER FOURTEEN: TAYLOR HAWKINS
19CHAPTER FIFTEEN: BUT HERE WE ARE
20CHAPTER SIXTEEN: A RECKONING AT HOME
21CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: YOUR FAVORITE TOY AND THE SOUND OF GOING ON
22CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: CONCLUSION, ONE BY ONE
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