'One lost soul's attempt at making sense of a world crumbling beneath his feet': how Dave Grohl faced the music
Fierce frontman: Dave Grohl Credit: Getty It seems impossible to imagine now, but once upon a time, Dave Grohl was “afraid of music.” “If I heard a song that even touched on an emotion in me, I would turn it off,” he told Anderson Cooper on CBS’ 60 Minutes in 2014. “I was so terrified because to me, that’s what music always was. It was a direct connection to my heart.” Grohl begun to feel disconnected from music in 1994, a year synonymous with the suicide of his friend and bandmate Kurt Cobain and the subsequent disbandment of Nirvana. Grief manifested for Grohl not in the for...