Watch Slash pay tribute to “really close friend” Taylor Hawkins at Orlando gig
28.03.2022 - 13:37
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Slash took time during his gig in Orlando, Florida this weekend to pay tribute to his “really close friend” Taylor Hawkins.On Friday night (March 25), Foo Fighters issued a statement confirming that the 50-year-old drummer had died in Bogotá, Colombia. A cause of death was not given.
“The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of Taylor Hawkins,” it read.Tributes to Hawkins have been flowing in across the weekend from the likes of Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, Queen guitarist Brian May, Ozzy Osbourne, John Mayer, Sam Fender, Ringo Starr, Nickelback, Incubus and many more.During his gig at Hard Rock Live in Orlando on Saturday night (March 26), Slash dedicated the song ‘Starlight’ to Hawkins, telling the crowd: “I’m sure most of you are aware that we lost a really close friend of ours last night — Taylor Hawkins, the drummer of the Foo Fighters.“First of all, he was a great fucking guy — a fucking sweetheart. He was a really good friend and a kickass drummer.
[We’re] completely crushed that we’ve lost him. So we wanna do a song tonight and dedicate it to him.
So we’re gonna play something we haven’t played actually on this whole tour, but we’re gonna do it tonight. This is called ‘Starlight’.”Watch the performance below.A host of artists have also dedicated performances and songs to the late drummer, including Coldplay, who dedicated a song to Hawkins at a gig in Mexico on Friday (March 25), and Miley Cyrus, who played her Lollapalooza set in his honour.Elsewhere, Liam Gallagher dedicated a performance of Oasis‘ ‘Live Forever’ to Taylor Hawkins at his Teenage Cancer Trust show at London’s Royal Albert Hall.On Saturday night, Elton John also paid tribute to Hawkins during a show at
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