Taylor Hawkins, the long time drummer for the American rock band Foo Fighters, dies at the age of 50. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever,” Foo Fighters wrote in a statement.
Taylor Hawkins, the long time drummer for the American rock band Foo Fighters, dies at the age of 50. It has been confirmed by the Rock band on twitter.
There were no immediate details about how Hawkins died, though the band said in a statement that his death was a “tragic and untimely loss.”
“The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely death loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” Foo Fighters wrote in a statement.
“His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever.”
“Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family, and we ask that their privacy be treated with the utmost respect in this unimaginably difficult time,” statement added.
Taylor Hawkins also starred in Foo Fighters recently released horror-comedy film, “Studio 666”, in which a demonic force in a house the band is staying in seizes Grohl and makes him murderous.
Hawkins and other members of the band, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee, Chris Shiflett, Nate Mendel, are killed off one by one. The film allowed the group, who for decades have been one of rock music’s most durable acts, to have fun while acting out a long-running joke.
The film’s premise came out of their work on their 10th studio album at a home in Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley.
Taylor Hawkins was considered the second most prominent member of the band after Foo Fighters founder and front man Dave Grohl.
It’s the second time Grohl has experienced the death of a close bandmate. Grohl was the drummer for Nirvana when Kurt Cobain died in 1994.
Oliver Taylor Hawkins was born in 1972 in Fort Worth Texas and was raised in Laguna Beach, California. He played in the small Southern California band Sylvia before landing his first major gig as a drummer for Canadian singer Sass Jordan. He then spent the mid-1990s as the touring drummer for Alanis Morissette before Grohl asked him to join the Foo Fighters.
Hawkins is survived by his wife and their three children.
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