Foo Fighters Salutes 'UFO City' With Gig
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About 500 people were treated to an exclusive album-release Foo Fighters (search) concert in a town that likes odd events.
Lead singer Dave Grohl (search) said he is a huge fan of UFOs but had never been to Roswell, the site of a purported 1947 crash-landing of something many suspect to have been alien spacecraft. The city has a UFO festival each summer.
Grohl, a former drummer for Nirvana (search), organized the Foo Fighters after the death of Nirvana singer Kurt Cobain and named his record label Roswell Records (search).
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"In Your Honor," released June 14 on Roswell/RCA Records, is the band's fifth album. The two-disc set features 10 hard-rock and 10 softer acoustic songs released on the band's 10-year anniversary.
Fans nationwide won tickets and transportation to Saturday's concert through an online trivia contest run by Rhapsody, a new Internet music service.
Foo Fighters is a term coined by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II. The term described mysterious glowing lights seen over German skies. Some people considered the Foo Fighters UFOs.
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The band goes on tour July 1 starting in Europe.