Movie About a Figher Who Learns to Walk Again

1999 single past Foo Fighters

"Learn to Fly"
LearnToFly1.jpg
Single past Foo Fighters
from the album In that location Is Nothing Left to Lose
B-side
  • "Iron and Rock"
  • "Have a Cigar"
  • "Make a Bet"
Released Nov 2, 1999 (1999-eleven-02)
Recorded Spring 1999
Studio
  • Studio 606 (Virginia)
  • Conway Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre
  • Alternative stone
  • power-popular
  • mail-grunge
Length 3:58
Label
  • Roswell
  • RCA
Songwriter(south) Foo Fighters
Producer(s)
  • Adam Kasper
  • Foo Fighters
Foo Fighters singles chronology
"Walking Later on Yous"
(1998)
"Learn to Fly"
(1999)
"Stacked Actors"
(2000)
Music video
"Acquire to Fly" on YouTube

"Learn to Fly" is a vocal past American rock band Foo Fighters. Information technology was released equally the lead single from their third studio album There Is Cipher Left to Lose (1999) on November 2, 1999. Information technology was the band'south first song to enter the Billboard Hot 100, likewise as their second-highest charting song on the Hot 100, peaking at number 19. It likewise peaked within the top 40 in Australia, Canada, Hungary, kingdom of the netherlands, New Zealand, Poland and the United Kingdom. The vocal'south music video won All-time Short Form Video honor at the 43rd Grammy Awards in 2000.

Release and reception [edit]

"Larn to Fly" was originally released as a promo-only single.[ane] It was officially released as a two-disc CD gear up in the UK and Commonwealth of australia, likewise as in Europe, and promotional singles were also released in other countries such as the Usa for radio play. In the US, it was the band's beginning advent on the Billboard Hot 100, charting at number 19,[2] and was the band's starting time number one on the Billboard Modern Stone Tracks chart.[3] It is also their highest-charting on the Billboard Hot 100 Airplay chart, forth with the 1996 striking "Big Me", reaching number 13.[4] The song fix the tape for most weeks (xiii) at number 1 on the Canadian stone radio charts.[5]

Music video [edit]

The music video for the song was directed by Jesse Peretz and won the Grammy Laurels for Best Short Class Music Video in 2001.[vi] It takes identify on a commercial airliner, parodying the moving picture Airplane!, and by extension, the films Airport 1975 and its sequel Airport '77, interspersed with a mock concert footage of the band shown as an in-flight movie. The background elevator music is The Moog Cookbook'south version of "Everlong".[seven] Ii airline cabin cleaners (played past Jack Black, and Kyle Gass from Tenacious D) smuggle and hide their narcotics, labelled "World Domination brand 'Erotic' Sleeping Pulverization",[8] in the coffee-maker. The flight attendants do not notice the narcotics when they employ the java-maker, and everyone who drinks the resulting coffee becomes incapacitated. The take-off sequence, in improver to the crew members hiding ulterior criminal motives, are a near shot-by-shot homage to the film Airport '77. The band, having avoided the coffee (choosing liquor instead), mirroring Karen Blackness'due south office in Aerodrome 1975, find themselves forced to land the airplane. For the video, each band member (Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, and Taylor Hawkins) portrays himself too as several other roles, including Hawkins as an attractive flight attendant and Grohl equally an FBI agent who arrests the two mechanics when they effort to smuggle more of their narcotics.[9]

2015 tribute video [edit]

On July 30, 2015, a video was published on YouTube of 1,000 Italian musicians in Cesena, Italy all playing and singing the song in unison, followed past a plea for the Foo Fighters to come play a concert in Cesena.[10] [11] [12] By August 16, information technology had gained more than 33 million views.[13]

On July 31, Dave Grohl responded, in Italian, thanking the makers for "the cute video" and adding "Thanks so much. We're coming, I swear. Nosotros'll meet each other presently."[14] [15] On November 3, 2015, in response, Foo Fighters performed a 20-seven-song concert in Cesena for approximately 3,000 people, starting their set with "Learn to Wing".[xvi]

The group assembled for the stunt accept performed subsequently nether the name Rockin' 1000, and take been described as the "biggest band in the globe."[17]

In August 2015, nearly sixteen years after its initial release, the single entered the Austrian Singles Nautical chart at number 69 and the Swiss Singles Chart at number 41.[18]

Other versions [edit]

A alive version recorded in Sydney, Australia, on Jan 24, 2000, was released on the Australian "Generator" single and CD one of "Breakout".

Disquisitional reception [edit]

Greg Kot of Rolling Rock referred to the vocal as a "guilt-free power carol". He noted that "on 'Learn to Wing', the big guitars and arching melody crush all quibbles. Some grunge romantics may even hear it equally a touching little hymn to [Nirvana]".[xix] In 2020, Kerrang ranked the song number 11 on their list of the 20 greatest Foo Fighters songs,[20] and in 2021, American Songwriter ranked the song number three on their list of the 10 greatest Foo Fighters songs.[21]

Track listings and formats [edit]

  • AUS / United kingdom CD Single [22] [23]
  1. "Acquire to Fly"  – 3:58
  2. "Iron and Rock"  – 2:52
  3. "Have a Cigar"  – 3:58
  • European union 7" Vinyl / Eu CD 1 / United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Cassette [24] [25] [26]
  1. "Learn to Fly"  – 3:58
  2. "Have a Cigar"  – 3:58
  • Eu CD two [27]
  1. "Larn to Fly"  – three:58
  2. "Make a Bet"  – 3:28
  3. "Have a Cigar"  – three:58

Credits and personnel [edit]

  • Foo Fighters – composition, lyrics, producer, performer
  • Adam Kasper – producer, recording
  • Andy Wallace – mixing
  • Ted Reiger – second engineer
  • Bob Ludwig – mastering

Credits and personnel adjusted from "Larn to Fly" CD single liner notes.[23]

Charts [edit]

Weekly charts [edit]

Certifications and sales [edit]

Release history [edit]

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

  • "Acquire to Fly" Official music video on YouTube

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learn_to_Fly

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