Foo Fighters announce guests for London Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

Two special shows will be held

Foo Fighters have announced the special guests who will be performing at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert at Wembley Stadium in London on September 3rd. Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Wolfgang Van Halen, Liam Gallagher, The Police’s Stewart Copeland, Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, Joshua Homme, drummer Omar Hakin and others have just been announced. Dave Chappelle is announced as a special guest.

The London show is one of two that Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jaffee are hosting for their former drummer. The second one in Los Angeles takes place September 27th at the Kia Forum with a lineup to be announced.

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.

 

Buddy Iahn
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