The Sunday Round-Up: 19th-25th May (celebrating 28 years of the Foo Fighters’ The Colour and The Shape)

Plus loads more music history to sink your teeth into from Adele, Marvin Gaye, Hanson, Coldplay, Dire Straits, and Simon & Garfunkel

Deep-Diving into the Foo Fighters’ Second album, The Colour and The Shape

20th May marks 28 years since the Foo Fighters released their second studio album, The Colour and The Shape. It’s the album that features Foo Fighters classics, ‘Monkey Wrench’, ‘My Hero’, and ‘Everlong’. Plus, despite being album number two, it was the first to feature the full Foo Fighters original line-up of guitarist Pat Smear, bassist Nate Mendel, and drummer William Goldsmith.

Foo Fighters, the self-titled debut, released two years prior, was more of a solo project for frontman Dave Grohl who provided vocals and played on all instruments with the exception of one guitar part on ‘X-Static’ performed by Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs. In an interview with Classic Rock, Grohl revealed…

‘The first Foo Fighters record was not meant to be an album, it was an experiment and for fun. I was just fucking around. Some of the lyrics weren’t even real words. But then for the second record someone said to me: ‘Maybe you s…