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Foo Fighters Say Trump Didn’t Have Permission to Use ‘My Hero’ at Arizona Rally

Foo Fighters said that Donald Trump did not have permission to use "My Hero" at his Arizona rally, and that they would donate the royalties to the Harris/Walz campaign.

As Kennedy Jr. was then welcomed to the stage, Foo Fighters’ 1997 hit played over the speakers. A rep for the band confirmed to Billboard, “Foo Fighters were not asked permission, and if they were, they would not have granted it.” They added that the band would take “appropriate action” to prevent further “My Hero” usage, and that whatever royalties they earned from the Trump rally’s usage would instead be donated to the Kamala Harris and Tim Walz campaign. Dating back to when he first announced his presidential candidacy nearly a decade ago, Trump has been notorious for using music at his campaign rallies without the artists’ permission, with the former president receiving pushback and legal threats from dozens of musicians over the unauthorized usage of their songs.

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