Foo Fighters honor drummer Taylor Hawkins during a moving London show.
At an all-star tribute performance on Saturday night, over 75,000 people flocked Wembley Stadium to celebrate the life and legacy of the late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins. While on tour in Colombia earlier this year, 50-year-old Hawkins passed away.
Hawkins was invited to play drums on a song that DJ, singer, and producer Mark Ronson was producing for King Princess. Ronson referred to the moving six-hour spectacle as “one of the greatest rock and roll shows ever assembled.”
Comedian Dave Chappelle, actor Jason Sudeikis, and musicians from Queen, The Police, Rush, and AC/DC were among the stars on the all-star roster at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Dave Grohl, the frontman of Foo Fighters, kicked off the tribute show.
“We love you, Taylor,” Grohl shouted to the crowd.
Just before his band was due to play in the city in March, Hawkins was discovered dead in his hotel room in Bogotá. A day later, the attorney general of Colombia claimed that Hawkins’s body had ten different narcotics at the time of his death, including benzodiazepines, marijuana, opioids, and tricyclic antidepressants.
The day Hawkins passed away, Chic’s cofounder Nile Rodgers was opening for Foo Fighters in Colombia. Rodgers left his tour on Saturday in order to participate in Saturday’s memorial.
