Music Gear News
At Gear4Music.com we update our news channel daily to ensure you always get the latest and most important music news.
Feminine rocker Dave Grohl
Posted on 2 Mar 2010 07:00 to category : Band / Celebrity News
Dave Grohl wants a woman to portray him in the Kurt Cobain biopic.
The Foo Fighters frontman thinks Shelly Duvall - who starred alongside Jack Nicholson in 'The Shining' - would be the perfect choice to play him in the story about his former Nirvana bandmate, who died in 1994.
He said: "I don't know about anyone else, but I'm crossing my fingers that Shelley Duvall plays me. Shelley Duvall in 'The Shining'... That is my face."
Grohl thinks Duvall would be great as him because he is a feminine man, and a woman portraying a male rock star worked before when Cate Blanchett took on the role of Bob Dylan in 'I'm Not There'.
He said: "I am probably the least manly dude that you have ever met in your life, so why not have Shelley Duvall play me?"
"Just put a beard on her. Cate Blanchett did it in the Dylan movie!"
Speaking about Cobain's suicide, Grohl described the shocking event as "probably the worst thing that has happened to me in my life. I remember the day after that I woke up and I was heartbroken that he was gone. I just felt like, 'OK, so I get to wake up today and have another day and he doesn't.' "
Related Music News ▼
Bleeding Love beauty Leona Lewis may well be about to make the leap from one-time talent show contestant to judge. More »
Marcus Mumford, of the band Mumford & Sons, has said that providing a film song is "quite fun", after it was revealed the band have worked on a track for an upcoming animation's soundtrack. More »
Madness are going to be visiting a host of UK locations when they go on tour in the autumn, with tickets for the shows going on sale this Friday. More »
One Direction's Harry Styles spotted clutching a guitar in airport. More »
Singer Aiden Grimshaw has suggested that his change of circumstance post The X Factor has been "amazing". More »
September 9th is set to see Do It Like A Dude singer Jessie J perform at a special concert from BBC Radio 2. More »
Recent Music News ▼
Get well soon is sure to be the message many music instrument players will want to send one of the most famous piano players in the world, Elton John. More »
It seems to be a match made in musical heaven: they've both parts of funky young pop groups, they're both ex-X Factor contestants and they're both in love with each other! More »
A singer by the name of Phillip Phillips has won US talent programme American Idol. More »
One perhaps wouldn't associate One Direction's often younger fan base with having enough money to stay in the sorts of lodgings that the Gotta Be You boys presumably favour when they're out on the road. More »
Many music instrument players may well have first been inspired to try the piano, guitar - or whatever their instrument of choice may be - by watching BBC favourite Top of the Pops. More »
Ireland's Eurovision entry, famed X Factor contestants Jedward, have managed to progress past the semi-finals stage of the international competition. More »
11213 products currently online
From 370 manufacturers
Gear4music.com is a trading name of Red Submarine Limited.
UK company number 3113256. © 1999 - 2012