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VIRAL VIDEO: 1000 Musicians Make History, Play ‘Learn to Fly’ for Foo Fighters to Go to Italy

Members of the band Foo Fighters (L-R) Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett and Nate Mendel attend the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Party in Beverly Hills, California February 9, 2008.

(Photo : Reuters) Members of the band Foo Fighters (L-R) Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Chris Shiflett and Nate Mendel attend the Clive Davis Pre-Grammy Party in Beverly Hills, California February 9, 2008.

Around 1,000 musicians, who are also die-hard Foo Fighters fans, just made history. In a unique attempt to convince the US band to play in Cesena, an Italian town of less than 100,000 citizens, they played the band's hit song "Learn to Fly," captured it on video and posted it online. 

In the super-slick YouTube video with production credits rivaling that of a small feature film, the huge crowd of 1,000 Foo Fighters fans consisting of guitarists, drummers and singers played the 1999 hit "Learn to Fly."

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The Rockin' 1000 project was conceived in 2014 by superfan Fabio Zaffagnini. He called the apparently successful project "a miracle that will not be repeated ever again in the music history."

The Rockin' 1000 project reportedly took a year to make. Zaffagnini and his team were able to raise $67,000 through a crowdfunding campaign in order to get the Rockin' 1000 project going.

The only goal of the 1,000 Foo Fighters fans is to get the band to perform in their humble town, according to ABC News. It appears they achieved more than that since the whole world was left stunned and amazed by their amazing feat.

In the Rockin' 1000 video, Zaffagnini plead to Foo Fighters. At the end of the song, he said, addressing the camera, "I guess this video is going to be seen by a huge amount of people all over the world, but to be true it's been conceived to be addressed just to five people."

"So to Chris, Pat, Nate, Taylor and Dave Grohl, the Foo Fighters. Italy is a country where dreams cannot easily come true, but it's a land of passion and creativity. So what we did here is just a huge miracle," he added. "One-thousand rockers that came from all over the nation at their own expenses and they just did for one song: Your song."


Foo Fighters playing in Cesena because of the Rockin' 1000 project is not entirely impossible. The band, with frontman Dave Grohl, who is known to be one of the nicest guys in the music industry, has been known time and again as fond of surprising fans, according to The Inquisitr.

According to Rolling Stone, last year, Foo Fighters played via a crowd-funded show in Virginia. In another effort from 1,500 diehard fans, they bought "tickets" to an imaginary concert. It reportedly became so successful that the band was impressed and had to play in the area.

In fact, 1,300 UK Foo Fighters fans got so inspired by the success of their US counterparts that they began a Kickstarter campaign to convince the band to play in Birmingham. So far, the Kickstarter project has raised $320,000, but there has still been no official response from Foo Fighters, reported The Sydney Morning Herald.

Early this month, one lucky fan was also able to play onstage with the Foo Fighters themselves after Dave Grohl saw him with a sign asking if it is possible to play the drums with the band.

These are proofs that any dream of a Foo Fighters fan can come true if they catch the band's attention.

The Rockin' 1000 project from Italy did just this. Their plea was already heard by Foo Fighters' management, who responded with a tweet, saying, "Che bello, Cesena" (How beautiful, Cesena).



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