This previous March noticed the chart-topping laborious rock outfit Foo Fighters endure a devastating blow within the passing of their beloved drummer/vocalist Taylor Hawkins. Having reassembled onstage this previous fall surrounded by his household, associates and friends for a collection of tribute concert events, the band are actually charting out what comes subsequent.
In a press release issued right now, December thirty first, the band supplied:
“As we are saying goodbye to probably the most troublesome and tragic yr that our band has ever identified, we’re reminded of how grateful we’re for the folks that we love and cherish most, and for the family members who’re not with us.
Foo Fighters had been shaped 27 years in the past to symbolize the therapeutic energy of music and a continuation of life. And for the previous 27 years our followers have constructed a worldwide neighborhood, a faithful help system that has helped us all get by way of the darkest of instances collectively. A spot to share our pleasure and our ache, our hopes and fears, and to affix in a refrain of life collectively by way of music. With out Taylor, we by no means would have develop into the band that we had been—and with out Taylor, we all know that we’re going to be a distinct band going ahead.
We additionally know that you just, the followers, meant as a lot to Taylor as he meant to you and we all know that once we see you once more—and we’ll quickly—he’ll be there in spirit with all of us each evening.”
Hawkins was discovered useless in a lodge room in Bogotá, Colombia on March twenty fifth. No explanation for loss of life was publicly launched.
— Foo Fighters (@foofighters) December 31, 2022