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How 1000 Cesena rockers won over the Foo Fighters

A video of 1000 musicians rocking the Foo Fighter’s Learn to Fly has gone viral, clocking up over five million views in just 48 hours and getting the thumbs up from the American band.

The project kicked off in spring 2014, when Fabio Zaffagnini and several friends were looking for “a mad idea” to convince the rock band to come to Cesena, in central Italy, to play for them.

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After a year’s planning, 1000 fans met up in a park in the city on July 26 to thrash out the song on drums, guitars and microphones, belting out the hit tune together as the sun set.

Watch the video below

“One thousand people, one thousand rockers, come at their own cost from all over the country, for a single song, your song,” Zafagnini says at the end of the video.

“So we ask you, the Foo Fighters, to come and play for us here in Cesena,” he said.

Posted on Thursday on YouTube, the video had over been viewed over five million times by late on Friday.

And, crucially, it was also shared on Twitter by the band’s singer, Dave Grohl.

Zafagnini would have been delighted by Grohl’s comment, when sharing the video, as he added “ci vediamo a presto, Cesena” (“see you soon Cesena”).

It looks like Zafagnini’s grand plan has succeeded.

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