Foo Fighters end 'the most difficult and tragic year that our band has ever known' with pledge to carry on without Taylor Hawkins - Yahoo Entertainment

After Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died suddenly connected March 25, 2022, the aboriginal of the set was successful doubt, fixed the highly adjacent relationship that Hawkins shared with Foos frontman Dave Grohl arsenic good arsenic his important relation successful the lineup (he’d been a halfway subordinate since 1997, co-writing connected each medium starting with 1999’s There Is Nothing Left to Lose). Four days aft Hawkins’s death, Foo Fighters indefinitely canceled each of their aboriginal gigs, including a show astatine the 64th yearly Grammys ceremonial (where they ended up bittersweetly winning 3 awards successful absentia.)

While Grohl has occasionally made unrecorded astonishment cameos — with Lionel Richie astatine the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, with Billie Eilish astatine Los Angeles’s Forum, with Sir Paul McCartney astatine Glastonbury — the band’s lone unrecorded performances person been astatine 2 all-star tribute concerts held successful London and Los Angeles this past September. But now, Foo Fighters person confirmed successful an affectional societal media station that they will transportation connected without Hawkins — adjacent though they volition understandably beryllium a "different band."

"As we accidental goodbye to the astir hard and tragic twelvemonth that our set has ever known, we are reminded of however thankful we are for the radical that we emotion and cherish most, and for the loved ones who are nary longer with us," the set stated. “Foo Fighters were formed 27 years agone to correspond the healing powerfulness of euphony and a continuation of life. 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. Without Taylor, we ne'er would person go the set that we were — and without Taylor, we cognize that we're going to beryllium a antithetic set going forward. 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.”

The twelvemonth and a fractional starring up to Hawkins’s shocking decease had been an particularly bustling and prolific clip for the seemingly unstoppable Foo Fighters. They released their Grammy-winning 10th medium Medicine astatine Midnight, the Record Store Day disco covers medium Hail Satin, and the horror-comedy movie Studio 666; performed astatine President Joe Biden’s inauguration; received the Global Icon Award astatine the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards; and were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by McCartney.

The Foo Fighters were besides 1 of the archetypal actively touring bands to get backmost onstage erstwhile COVID restrictions eased up successful 2021, starting with a six-song acceptable astatine SoFi Stadium’s Vax Live lawsuit connected May 2 that year, followed by a afloat 23-song amusement astatine the 610-capacity Canyon Club successful Agoura, Calif., to observe the “reopening” of Los Angeles County nightlife connected June 15. The Foos besides reopened New York’s Madison Square Garden conscionable 5 days aft the Canyon Club amusement and headlined respective festivals, including Lollapalooza successful Chicago. Overall, they played astir 40 shows successful 2021, and astatine the clip of Hawkins’s death, determination had been astir 60 dates, passim North America, South America, Europe, and Australia, connected the Foo Fighters’ calendar for 2022.

Hawkins's last amusement with Foo Fighters was astatine Lollapalooza Argentina connected March 20, 2022. Five days later, helium was recovered dead successful his edifice country successful Bogotá, Colombia, conscionable hours earlier the Foos were acceptable to execute astatine the Estéreo Picnic Festival; successful lieu of the concert, candles were placed onstage that nighttime to grant him. Two months aft his death, Rolling Stone published a bombshell study titled "Inside Taylor Hawkins's Final Days arsenic a Foo Fighter," claiming that the drummer had been connected the brink of exhaustion from playing truthful galore physically taxing, astir three-hour shows, and had been considering scaling backmost his duties oregon adjacent quitting the set wholly due to the fact that helium “knew helium didn’t person it successful him.” The Foos’ campy ne'er publically addressed these claims, but 2 of Hawkins's adjacent friends who were interviewed for the piece, Pearl Jam's Matt Cameron and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, blasted Rolling Stone's report.

A origin of decease has inactive not been revealed, and Foo Fighters’ Dec. 31 connection did not notation who mightiness regenerate Hawkins successful the lineup oregon immoderate circumstantial plans for a caller medium oregon tour.

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