Foo Fighters Prep "In Your Honor"

The Foo Fighters plan to release their fifth album, In Your Honor, in June. The double album -- one disc will be acoustic and the other "rock" -- took a year to record and features twenty tracks.

"It is by far the most ambitious project I have ever had anything to do with in my entire life," frontman Dave Grohl posts on the band's Web site, adding that the final track listing was whittled down from a batch of forty songs. "There are subtleties. There are complexities. There are extremities. There are familiarities. There is orchestration," the somewhat cryptic post continues.

In Your Honor features a diverse batch of guests, including Norah Jones, former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme. "They may seem strange to you," Grohl adds of the cast of characters. "They don't seem strange to me."

He is also planning to get out of the studio and onto the road. "I have a calendar in front of me that is a year long," he says, "fucking packed with tours that will spin us around the globe over and over."

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Song Stories

“Oh Sherrie”

Steve Perry | 1984

Steve Perry's girlfriend Sherrie Swafford was actually in the studio when Perry began writing this song--his lone Top Ten hit as a solo act--with two co-writers. The trio began at midnight one night with just "Oh, Sherrie!" and "hold on, hold on." Three hours later, they had a complete song. Swafford, however, had to wait until the next day to hear it. "Sherrie actually got tired and went to bed," Perry said. She also appeared in the video, but their relationship did not hold on for long.

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