First wave of all-star lineups announced

Foo Fighters have announced the first wave of guests who will be performing at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles on September 27th. Miley Cyrus, Joan Jett, Alanis Morissette, Gene Simmons, Nikki Sixx, Chad Smith, Luke Spiller, Jon Theodore, Brad Wilk, Pat Wilson and others will appear with more to be announced.

Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Wolfgang Van Halen, The Police’s Stewart Copeland, Jane’s Addiction’s Chris Chaney, Mark Ronson, Joshua Homme, drummer Omar Hakim with an appearance by Hawkins’ cover band Chevy Metal, were announced earlier today (Wed, June 15th) for the London show and will appear at both events.

The artists will play the songs that “Taylor loved and created, with and alongside his FF brothers Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jaffee.”

The two all-star global events in celebration of Hawkins’ memory and his legacy as a global rock icon will take place September 3rd at London’s Wembley Stadium and September 27th at The Kia Forum in Los Angeles.

Presale tickets are on sale Thursday, June 16th. The London presale runs from 9 am until 8 am the next day local time while the Los Angeles presale runs from 9 am until 10 pm only. The public on sale is set for Friday, June 17th at 9 am local time for both shows via Ticketmaster.

The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts will benefit charities in both the UK and the US chosen by the Hawkins family. Beneficiaries and further details will be announced shortly.

Hawkins was found dead in his Bogota, Colombia hotel room on March 25th while the Foo Fighters were on tour in South America. Initial results released by the Colombia Attorney General’s Office over the weekend indicate marijuana, tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines and opioids were among 10 different substances found in his body. Further details reveal that Hawkins had a “cardiovascular collapse” after binging on a bevy of drugs in his Four Seasons hotel room. Forensic experts have also revealed that his heart weight 600 grams (1.3 pounds), double the average size of a man his age of 50 years old. However, an official cause of death has yet to be revealed.

Taylor Hawkins joined Foo Fighters in 1997, first appearing with the band on the tour supporting sophomore album The Colour & The Shape. He made his recorded debut with Foo Fighters with 1999’s There Is Nothing Left To Lose, playing on every subsequent FF album, including One By One, In Your Honor (the first FF album to feature him assuming lead vocal duties on his song “Cold Day In The Sun”), Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, Wasting Light, Sonic Highways, Concrete & Gold (also featuring him as lead singer on “Sunday Rain”) and Medicine at Midnight. As a member of Foo Fighters, Taylor was a 15-time GRAMMY Award winner and member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. He lived and loved music to an insatiable degree, with Foo Fighters as well as his numerous solo and side projects and collaborations.

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