Foo Fighters’ drummer Taylor Hawkins has passed away.
Rock music legend Taylor Hawkins, drummer of the band Foo Fighters, passed away at the age of 50.
The news was confirmed by the band on social media on Saturday with a statement which reads:
“The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins.”
“His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever. Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family, and we ask that their privacy be treated with the utmost respect in this unimaginably difficult time.”
The band had been due to play Festival Estéreo Picnic in Bogota, Colombia this weekend. According to local website Semana, Hawkins’ body was found in his hotel room north of Bogota. Hawkins’ final concert was Sunday at another festival in San Isidro, Argentina.
Colombia’s Prosecutor’s Office released a statement Saturday saying toxicological tests on urine from Hawkins’ body preliminarily found 10 psychoactive substances and medicines, including marijuana, opioids, tricyclic antidepressants and benzodiazepines.
Starting out as Alanis Morissette’s drummer, he then joined Dave Grohl’s band in 1997. Hawkins played with Foo Fighters for more than two decades, joining shortly after they finished making their 1997 album The Colour and the Shape.
Grohl and Hawkins were the beating heart of the Foo Fighters: Hawkins would often take a starring role with Grohl in videos and interviews, and their infectious musical chemistry – cemented via a shared love of guitar playing – was there from the outset. In Grohl’s 2021 book “The Storyteller,” he called Hawkins his “brother from another mother, my best friend, a man for whom I would take a bullet.”
The list of people paying tribute to Hawkinsall moved to social media this weekend to express their sadness and condolences at Hawkins’ death. This includes Rock and Roll legends such as Ringo Starr, Johnny Marr, Tony Iommi, Lars Ulrich, Mick Jagger, Tom Morello, Axl Rose, Ozzy Osbourne, and Brian Wilson.
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