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Dave Grohl recalls 'strange' day after Kurt Cobain's death

Dave Grohl: "I didn't really have a plan. When everything's sort of turned upside down, and shaken up like that, you just wake up every day thinking, 'Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?'"
Dave Grohl: "I didn't really have a plan. When everything's sort of turned upside down, and shaken up like that, you just wake up every day thinking, 'Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?'"

Dave Grohl has recalled the "strange" day after Kurt Cobain's death, saying "it felt like everything had "turned upside down".

Nirvana frontman Cobain died in 1994, aged 27, at the height of his band's fame.

Speaking to Dermot O'Leary on the latest episode of BBC Two’s Reel Stories, Grohl, who was the group’s drummer, said that he soon realised he had to tackle one day at a time.

"I didn’t really have a plan," Grohl said. When everything’s sort of turned upside down, and shaken up like that, you just wake up every day thinking, 'Who am I, where am I, what am I doing?’

"I remember the day after Kurt died, how strange it felt to wake up knowing he wasn’t with us anymore, and that I had another day. Like, OK, so what am I going to do with today?

"I believe it was then that I started to realise, oh OK, you have to do everything once again," he said.

"Meaning like, I have to make a pot of coffee and this is my first pot of coffee since Kurt’s gone. I have to go upstairs and get dressed.

"This is the first thing I’ll wear since Kurt has been gone. It goes like that. I honestly don’t know what I did. It was months and months and months."

Reel Stories: Dave Grohl airs on Saturday March 27 at 10.30pm on BBC Two.

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