All My Life (Foo Fighters Song)

All My Life (Foo Fighters Song)

"All My Life" is a song by the American alternative rock band Foo Fighters, released as the first single from their fourth album, One by One. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance, and spent ten straight weeks at #1 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, Dave Grohl notes that the band had wanted a heavier sounding song to appear as a single, stating that the band were "coming out with "Learn to Fly" and "Next Year" and other songs that had middle-of-the-road melodies." This was also the first time that the Foo Fighters single came in the top 10 of the UK Single Chart since This Is a Call, which was their first single from 1995.

In March 2005, Q magazine placed "All My Life" at number 94 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. It was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single. British rock band Feeder, use the opening lines from this song as an interlude during live performances of "Lost and Found". It was also used in the promotional video for the Australian Tennis Open by Eurosport(Din)

The song was released, along with "I'll Stick Around" from the band's self-titled debut album and "Lonely as You", also from One by One, as downloadable content for the Rock Band video game series on August 18, 2009. This song is also playable on Rock Revolution.

A version recorded during Episode 8 of Series 20 of Later... with Jools Holland on November 26th, 2002 at the BBC Television Centre was released on the DVD "Later... Louder with Jools Holland". An unaired interview with Dave and Taylor recorded on the same day was included as an exclusive bonus feature on the DVD.

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Famous quotes containing the words life and/or fighters:

    My life I never held but as a pawn
    To wage against thine enemies’ nor fear to lose it,
    Thy safety being motive.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    O can’t you see, brother—
    Death’s a congested road for fighters now,
    and hero a cheap label.
    C.D. Andrews (1913–1992)