Add one more to the list of artists upset with John McCain's campaign usage of their music: the Foo Fighters have objected to "My Hero" being played at rallies for the Arizona senator and Republican presidential hopeful.
"The saddest thing about this is that 'My Hero' was written as a celebration of the common man and his extraordinary potential. To have it appropriated without our knowledge and used in a manner that perverts the original sentiment of the lyric just tarnishes the song," reads a missive by the band.
If the widely-held assumption that the late Kurt Cobain is the inspiration behind the popular track from 1997's The Colour and the Shape album is true, this usage would understandably add to the offense taken by head Foo David Grohl, the song's composer and Cobain's bandmate in Nirvana.
The band Heart, veteran hard rockers Van Halen and singer/songwriter Jackson Browne have each voiced similar complaints about the McCain camp using their respective music without permission, as well.
