The late drummer Taylor Hawkins, performing with Foo Fighters in Malibu, California in 2018.
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The late drummer Taylor Hawkins, performing with Foo Fighters in Malibu, California in 2018.
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The multi-platinum rock band Foo Fighters has canceled all of its upcoming tour dates after the loss of life of its drummer, Taylor Hawkins.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that Foo Fighters verify the cancellation of all upcoming tour dates in mild of the staggering lack of our brother Taylor Hawkins,” the band mentioned in a short assertion despatched to NPR on Tuesday.
“We’re sorry for and share within the disappointment that we cannot be seeing each other as deliberate. As an alternative, let’s take this time to grieve, to heal, to drag our family members shut, and to understand all of the music and reminiscences we have made collectively. With Love, Foo Fighters.”
The band is scheduled to carry out on the Grammy Awards in Las Vegas this Sunday, the place it has been nominated for 3 awards. NPR has requested Foo Fighters’ representatives if the band will nonetheless seem on the telecast, however didn’t obtain an instantaneous reply.
Hawkins died at age 50 in Bogota, Colombia, on Friday, the place the group had been scheduled to carry out. An official explanation for loss of life hasn’t but been launched.
On Saturday night, Colombia’s legal professional common’s workplace launched a preliminary toxicology report, saying that medical experts discovered proof of 10 kinds of substances in Hawkins’ physique, together with opioids, benzodiazepines, marijuana and antidepressants. It mentioned that its forensics report on Hawkins continues.
Hawkins had been in Foo Fighters since 1997, three years after the band started. Earlier than that, he had been the touring drummer for Alanis Morissette. Throughout Hawkins’ time with Foo Fighters, the band received 12 Grammy Awards and scored 4 No. 1 hits on the Billboard charts.
