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A thousand fans perform Foo Fighters classic

Nothing shows you are dedicated to a cause quite like gathering 1000 of your friends, learning a classic rock song and recording it for the world to see.

But that is exactly what a group of musicians in Italy are hoping will bring the Foo Fighters to their town.

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Guitarists, singers, drummers and bassists came together on Sunday to simultaneously perform the Foo Fighters 1999 hit Learn to Fly.

A grassroots project called The Rockin’ 1000, it was an effort to bring the American rock band to play in Cesena, in northern Italy – a town with a population less than 100,000.

It follows a crowdfunding effort last year that brought the Foo Fighters to Virginia when more than 1400 fans pre-purchased tickets on the off-chance the band would play.

Although the latest effort is yet to discover its fate, the video has already garnered nearly 2.2 million views since it was posted yesterday.

“Italy is a country where dreams cannot easily come true but it’s a land of passion and creativity, so what we did here is just a huge, huge miracle,” creator Fabio Zaffagnini said in the video.

“One-thousand rockers that came from all over the nation at their own expenses and they just did for one song: Your song.”

In seven months, the group raised more than $670,000 to fund the venture.

In a tongue-in-cheek video to promote the crowdfunding efforts of the group, Mr Zaffagnini says the idea came to him “one morning having breakfast” when he heard the voice of Dave Grohl asking him to get him to Romagna.

“I do it for me, for you, for the whole humankind,” Mr Zaffagnini said.

The Rockin’ 1000 group will send the completed video to the Foo Fighters.

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