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Foo Fighters’ first ever headline club show, at the Satyricon in Portland, Oregon, 3 March 1995.

At Robert Lang Studios in Shoreline, Seattle, 26 January 1996. (Left to right) Nate Mendel, William Goldsmith, Dave Grohl, Barrett Jones, Robert Lang, Pat Smear.

Writing the set-list for the final show of the Foo Fighters album tour, 19 July 1996, at the Phoenix Festival at Long Marston Airfield, Stratford-upon-Avon.

Looking suave on the ‘Monkey Wrench’ video shoot at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, March 1997.

Meeting Grohl backstage at London’s Brixton Academy, 23 November 1997.

Skin and Bones: Foo Fighters in the hot tub at the U2-owned Clarence Hotel, Dublin, July 2002.

Handsome Devil: Grohl invokes The Great Horned Beast for Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.

Laying down apocalyptic thunder in LA for the Killing Joke album.

With QOTSA’s Josh Homme and Nick Oliveri at the Troubadour, Los Angeles.

In corpse paint for Kerrang! magazine, London, November 2003.

Up close and personal with wife Jordyn at the 2006 Grammy Awards after-party at the Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles.

Bonded by Blood: With lifelong friend Jimmy Swanson at The Forum, Inglewood, California, 6 March 2008.

Rock God: Grohl onstage at Wembley Stadium, London, June 2008.