Grohl thought Reading would end Nirvana

DAVE GROHL has admitted he was convinced that headlining the Reading Festival would end Nirvana's career.

The band's former drummer said he wasn't sure they would be able to pull off the performance in 1992 after frontman Kurt Cobain was brought on stage in a wheelchair.

Speaking to the Scotsman, Grohl said: "Kurt had been in and out of rehab, communication in the band was beginning to be strained.

"Kurt was living in LA,Krist [Novoselic] and I were in Seattle. People weren't even sure if we were going to show up.

"We rehearsed [for Reading] once, the night before, and it wasn't good. I really thought, 'This will be a disaster, this will be the end of our career for sure.' And then it turned out to be a wonderful show, and it healed us for a little while."

Nirvana split in 1994 after Cobain's suicide in April that year and Grohl, who now fronts the Foo Fighters, said he thinks the band are misleadingly thought of as gloomy.

He added: "It's easy to imagine that we were followed by a black cloud. But it wasn't all misery and doom. People know the biography, but it's a little more complicated than that."