It pays to be a superstar musician.
Case in point? Dave Grohl was able to get Paul McCartney to give his daughter her first piano lesson. All he had to do was wine and dine him first.
Grohl was a guest on The Graham Norton Show and spoke about the time Macca came over to dinner and gave his daughter Harper a piano lesson.
“We have wine and pizza and we were hanging out, and it was time for Paul to go,” Grohl said. No big deal right? “Paul and [his wife] Nancy were leaving and there was a piano in the corner of the room, and he just can’t help himself.”
Dave continued: “So he sits down at the piano and starts playing ‘Lady Madonna’… In my f*****g house! My mind is blown, I can’t believe this is happening. This is like the most crazy full-circle moment of my entire life.”
The story gets even better though. “My daughter Harper, who I think was five at the time, is watching Paul McCartney on the piano and she goes to the kitchen and gets a coffee cup, puts some change in it and puts it on top of the piano like it’s a tip jar,” Grohl recalled.
The kicker? She sat down next to McCartney who then proceeded to teach her how to play. “They sat down together, and he was showing her what to play, and they wrote a song together,” he said.
In a separate interview, Grohl touched on the album art from the iconic Nirvana album Nevermind. A few weeks ago, Spencer Elden, the child who appears on the artwork, sued Kurt Cobain’s estate and the band claiming use of his image was never given by himself or his legal guardians.
“I have many ideas of how we should alter that cover but we’ll see what happens,” Grohl said. “We’ll let you know. I’m sure we’ll come up with something good.”
Grohl didn’t offer much comment on the ongoing litigation. “I think that there’s much more to look forward to and much more to life than getting bogged down in those kinds of things,” he said. “Fortunately, I don’t have to do the paperwork.”
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