Learn to Fly

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"Learn to Fly"

Single by Foo Fighters
from the album There Is Nothing Left to Lose
Released	November 9, 1999
Format	CD
Genre	Alternative rock
Label	Roswell/RCA Records
Foo Fighters singles chronology
"Walking After You" (1998)	"Learn to Fly" (1999)	"Stacked Actors" (2000)
Alternative cover

(CD2)

"Learn to Fly" is the first single from the Foo Fighters' third album There Is Nothing Left to Lose. It was released on two different singles in the UK in 1999. "Learn to Fly" is one of the band's most successful singles, including a top 20 peak on the Billboard Hot 100.

1 Music Video
2 Track listing
3 Chart positions
4 References

[edit] Music Video

The music video for the song takes place on an airplane, parodying the movie "Airplane!". Two airline mechanics (played by Tenacious D) hide what appears to be drugs in the coffee-maker (it is revealed in the band's official website that the package is actually labeled "World Domination brand 'Erotic' Sleeping Powder"^[1]), which end up incapacitating everyone who drinks the coffee. The band, having avoided the coffee, finds themselves forced to land the plane. For the video, each band member (Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel and Taylor Hawkins) portrays themselves as well as several other roles, including flight attendants, passengers, and pilots. Accompanying the opening and closing scenes of the film clip is a muzak version of "Everlong". The video was filmed in London, England in a cabin crew training airplane. The video won the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video.

[edit] Track listing

CD1:

"Learn to Fly"
"Iron and Stone" (The Obsessed cover)
"Have a Cigar" (Waters)

CD2:

"Learn to Fly"
"Make a Bet"
"Have a Cigar" (Waters)

[edit] Chart positions

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1999	Learn To Fly	Billboard Hot 100 (US)	No. 19 ¹
1999	Learn To Fly	UK Singles Chart	No. 21
1999	Learn To Fly	Modern Rock Tracks (US)	No. 1
1999	Learn To Fly	Mainstream Rock Tracks (US)	No. 2
1999	Learn To Fly	Adult Top 40 (US)	No. 15
1999	Learn To Fly	Top 40 Mainstream (US)	No. 22
1999	Learn To Fly	Top 40 Tracks (US)	No. 22
1999	Learn To Fly	New Zealand Singles Chart	No. 23
1999	Learn To Fly	Australian Singles Chart	No. 35
1999	Learn To Fly	Official Sweden Singles Chart	No. 52
1999	Learn To Fly	Official Euro Hot 100 Singles Chart	No. 65
1999	Learn To Fly	Official Holland Singles Chart	No. 72

Note 1: Billboard's artist chart history for the band shows the peak as #13. However, the Billboard Hot 100 chart which ran in the March 4, 2000 issue of Billboard Magazine, the song's final appearance on the chart (at #50), lists the peak of the song as #19. ("Learn to Fly" reached #19 on January 22, 2000.)