Foo Fighters performed a cover of a Beatles’ classic during their final show in Liverpool. Check it out below.
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Dave Grohl and co. are currently on the road for their European ‘Take Cover’ tour, which comes in support of their brand new album ‘Your Favorite Toy‘.
The trek saw them play two nights at Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium this week, on Thursday (June 25) and Saturday (27).
Their set last night was mostly similar to night one, with the band launching into crowd-pleasers such as ‘The Pretender’ and ‘Learn To Fly’, before playing an acoustic portion later on.
However, they took this gig to honour The Beatles in their hometown with a cover of ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’.
Foo Fighters paying homage to The Beatles tonight in Liverpool! They played I want you (she is so heavy) in Anfield pic.twitter.com/tSVLIkgQMK
— Maca (@Macainconcerts) June 27, 2026
Grohl is friends with Paul McCartney, and has previously shared that the music legend gave his daughter her very first piano lesson.
They’ve also performed together multiple times – most recently in 2022 during McCartney’s headline set at Glastonbury, where the two of them played The Beatles’ ‘I Saw Her Standing There’ and Wings’ ‘Band On The Run’.
Earlier in the set, the band invited a fan dressed as a pack of Mentos on stage, with Grohl saying, “When shit like this happens, that means this is the night of our lives, so thank you.”
The man sang to the audience, before Grohl quickly told him to head back into the crowd, joking: “Get the fuck off my stage.”
Foo Fighters bringing a fan on stage (who was dressed up as a the Mentos wrapping) in Liverpool @foofighters
Best moment of the night!!! pic.twitter.com/MmSX2ftVu2
— Maca (@Macainconcerts) June 28, 2026
Foo Fighters played:
‘All My Life’
‘The Pretender’
‘Times Like These’
‘Rope’
‘Breakout’
‘My Hero’
‘Learn to Fly’
‘These Days’
‘Walk’
‘This Is a Call’
‘No Son of Mine’
‘Wheels’
‘Marigold’
‘Big Me’
‘Under You’
‘La Dee Da’
‘Generator’
‘Caught in the Echo’
‘Invincible’ / ‘Seven’ / ‘One Headlight’ / ‘Manimal’ / ‘Tap Dancing in a Minefield’ / ‘Whole Lotta Love’
‘Monkey Wrench’
‘Hey, Johnny Park!’
‘Aurora’
‘Best of You’
‘The Teacher’
‘Unconditional’
‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ (The Beatles Cover)
‘Exhausted’
‘Everlong’
NME caught their first gig in Liverpool earlier this week, giving it a four-star review, which read: “That laid-back rock club vibe is what makes this work. Foos don’t have the bells, whistles, pyro, or blockbuster special effects of other standard stadium acts, just tunes and banter.
“Who’d have thought that ‘This Is A Call’, ‘For All the Cows’ and ‘Big Me’ – written for their 1995 debut and for sweaty little rooms – would land like Queen classics on this pitch?
“They keep the backroom jam energy up by splicing a little Motörhead into the Metallica-meets-Sabbath chug-along of ‘No Son Of Mine’ before bringing the vast venue in for a run of numbers on the B-stage, peaking with the tale of writing Nirvana B-side ‘Marigold’ on Kurt Cobain’s couch, and the tender ‘Aurora’ being dedicated to the late, great Taylor Hawkins.”
This summer, the band will also make festival appearances at Mad Cool and NOS Alive festival. Support across various dates will include Royel Otis, Inhaler, IDLES, Otoboke Beaver, Fat Dog and Die Spitz. Get any remaining tickets here.
They released their new album ‘Your Favorite Toy’ in April, which NME gave 3 and a half stars, noting: ‘Your Favorite Toy’ is a few more tracks of that depth away from being the most vital Foo Fighters record since 1997’s ‘The Colour and the Shape’,” we wrote. “For now, at least, they have remembered that no-frills punk, played fast and loud, suits them much better than middle-of-the-road dad-rock.”
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