This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
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Paul Brannigan. This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl
This is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl. By Paul Brannigan
Contents
Foreword
Learn to Fly
This is a call
Chaotic hardcore underage delinquents
Gods look down
Negative creep
Lounge act
Smells like teen spirit
I hate myself and I want to die
I’ll stick around
My poor brain
Disenchanted lullaby
Home
These days
Photographic Inserts
Sources
Bibliography
Discography
Searchable Terms
Acknowledgements
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Cover
Title Page
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On a practical level, Virginia Grohl quickly realised that her $18,000 salary as a high school teacher in the Fairfax County public school system was never going to cover the cost of raising two children single-handedly. To supplement her income she took on part-time work: week-day evenings were spent working in a department store, while weekends were occupied by administration duties for a local carpet cleaning company.
The Edgar Winter Group’s ‘Frankenstein’ was one of the 1970s’ more unlikely Number 1 singles. Originally a sprawling live jam, allowing the Texas-born Winter to demonstrate his virtuosity on a variety of instruments on his 1972 album They Only Come Out at Night, ‘Frankenstein’ was a spacey, synthesiser-led, progressive rock instrumental, featuring a spiralling saxophone solo and mid-song drum duel. The following year the track was used as the B-side of the band’s ‘Hangin’ Around’ single, but as disc jockeys nationwide began playing the track in response to listener requests, Winter’s label Epic flipped the seven inch and began plugging ‘Frankenstein’ as the single. In May 1973 the song reached Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, eventually selling more than one million copies. As track nine on the Block Buster compilation, it would change one little boy’s life forever.
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