LOS ANGELES -- Taylor Hawkins, the longtime drummer for the rock band Foo Fighters, has died. He was 50. There were no immediate details about how Hawkins ...
Hawkins and the other members of the band are killed off one by one. “I am not afraid to say that our chance meeting was a kind of love at first sight, igniting a musical ‘twin flame’ that still burns to this day," Grohl wrote in his book. Hawkins told The Associated Press in 2019 that his early drumming influences included Stewart Copeland of The Police, Roger Taylor from Queen, and Phil Collins, who he said was “one of my favorite drummers ever. The premise came out of their work on their 10th studio album at a home in Los Angeles. He would, however, go on to pound out epic versions of it hundreds of times as the climax of Foo Fighters' concerts. “The world was so lucky to have his gifts for the time that it did.” I didn’t sound exactly like him, I sound like me, but he was a big, huge influence.” Grohl called Hawkins, who was a huge Foo Fighters fan and immediately accepted. “We are absolutely meant to be, and I am grateful that we found each other in this lifetime.” Grohl was the drummer for Nirvana when Kurt Cobain died in 1994. Hawkins was Alanis Morissette's touring drummer when he joined Foo Fighters in 1997. “Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family.”