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Taylor Hawkins' Wife Speaks Out 2 Months After His Death
Foo Fighters volition proceed to marque music while keeping Taylor Hawkins successful their hearts.
On Dec. 31, nine months aft their drummer's shocking decease astatine property 50, the stone group, led by frontman Dave Grohl, released a peculiar New Year's Eve connection connected Instagram. While reflecting on the "most hard and tragic twelvemonth that our set has ever known," the radical is looking up to continue their enactment successful the future while honoring their precocious bandmate's legacy.
"Without Taylor, we would ne'er person go the set that we were," they said, "and without Taylor, we cognize that we're going to beryllium a antithetic set going forward."
The connection continued, "We besides cognize that you, the fans, meant arsenic overmuch to Taylor arsenic helium meant to you. And we cognize that erstwhile we spot you again—and we volition soon—he'll beryllium determination successful tone with each of america each night."
Grohl, a chap drummer, formed Foo Fighters successful Seattle successful 1994 aft his erstwhile set Nirvana disbanded pursuing the decease of legendary vocalist Kurt Cobain. Hawkins, who played drums connected circuit with Alanis Morissette, joined Foo Fighters successful 1997.
"Foo Fighters were formed 27 years agone to correspond the healing powerfulness of euphony and a continuation of life," the radical said successful their statement. "And for the past 27 years our fans person built a worldwide community, a devoted enactment strategy that has helped america each get done the darkest of times together. A spot to stock our joyousness and our pain, our hopes and fears, and to articulation successful a chorus of beingness unneurotic done music."
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Hawkins performed onstage for the past clip connected March 20, with Foo Fighters at Lollapalooza Argentina. Five days later, helium was found dead in a edifice country successful Colombia, hours earlier the set was acceptable to play a show. The Colombian Attorney General's Office aboriginal said toxicology results showed that helium had drugs successful his system, but did not uncover the origin of his death. The lawsuit remains nether investigation.
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Foo Fighters canceled their remaining 2022 circuit dates pursuing Hawkins' decease and person yet to denote caller concerts for the band. In September, the group performed for the archetypal clip without the drummer, headlining 2 star-studded charity concerts dedicated to him, including 1 successful London. His son Oliver Shane Hawkins, 16, joined the radical onstage arsenic a impermanent drummer and paid tribute to his dada with a show of "My Hero."
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