ABC/Travis BellThe guest list for the upcoming new Foo Fighters album, Concrete and Gold, just got even bigger: in an interview with Rolling Stone, Dave Grohl reveals that Justin Timberlake sings back-up vocals on the project.
As Grohl tells it, he ran into Timberlake while the Foos were recording Concrete and Gold at EastWest Studios in Los Angeles, and soon enough, the two started to hang out together.
“We’d drink whiskey in the parking lot,” Grohl says. “He was really, really cool. Then the night before his last day, he says, ‘Can I sing on your record? I don’t want to push it, but — I just want to be able to tell my friends.'”
The Foos then recorded Timberlake adding back-up vocals to one of the album’s songs.
“He nailed it,” Grohl says, adding, tongue in cheek, “I’m telling you — the guy’s going somewhere.”
Now, Grohl doesn’t explicitly state that Timberlake is the mysterious “biggest pop star in the world” that he previously announced sang back-up vocals on Concrete and Gold, but if it’s not, then we’re really running out of viable candidates. Grohl already stated that neither Taylor Swift nor Adele sing on the album. Beatles legend Paul McCartney is on the record, but he’s playing drums.
We’ll find out all the guests when Concrete and Gold is released September 15.
Elsewhere in the Rolling Stone interview, Grohl speaks about the death of his friend and grunge contemporary, Chris Cornell. He reveals that Soundgarden was actually scheduled to play the Foos’ upcoming Cal Jam 17 festival, held October 7 in San Bernardino, California.
“I loved [Cornell],” says Grohl, who also lost Nirvana band mate Kurt Cobain to suicide. “He was a really sweet guy. Full of life. And he had so much to offer. That one hurt.”
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