“My Hero” was first released on Foo Fighters’ career-defining The Colour and the Shape album in 1997. There is a slew of opinions about for whom Dave Grohl wrote the anthemic pounder. Was it about Kurt Cobain, his mother, another unsung icon? Even after the song became a worldwide hit, Grohl remained vague about the song’s inspiration.
The writer would address the subject with quiet politeness until a column for The Atlantic. In that piece, he explained that it examines what integrity and fatherhood mean to him. Perhaps, with distance, Grohl discovered he was investigating something he didn’t see at the time. Or, like many artists, he felt revealing too much might impede the way “My Hero” developed meaning for listeners. From: https://articles.roland.com/behind-the-beat-my-hero-by-foo-fighters/
