{"id":173864,"date":"2023-01-01T00:46:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T00:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/foo-fighters-end-the-most-difficult-and-tragic-year-that-our-band-has-ever-known-with-pledge-to-carry-on-without-taylor-hawkins\/"},"modified":"2023-01-01T00:46:05","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T00:46:05","slug":"foo-fighters-end-the-most-difficult-and-tragic-year-that-our-band-has-ever-known-with-pledge-to-carry-on-without-taylor-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/foo-fighters-end-the-most-difficult-and-tragic-year-that-our-band-has-ever-known-with-pledge-to-carry-on-without-taylor-hawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Foo Fighters end ‘the most difficult and tragic year that our band has ever known’ with pledge to carry on without Taylor Hawkins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pat Smear, Taylor Hawkins, and Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters attend the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Studio 666’ at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theater just one month before Hawkins’s death. (Photo: Rich Fury\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n

After Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins died suddenly on March 25, 2022, the future of the band was in doubt, given the extremely close friendship that Hawkins shared with Foos frontman Dave Grohl as well as his crucial role in the lineup (he’d been a core member since 1997, co-writing on every album starting with 1999’s There Is Nothing Left to Lose<\/em>). Four days after Hawkins’s death, Foo Fighters indefinitely canceled all of their future gigs, including a performance at the 64th annual Grammys ceremony (where they ended up bittersweetly winning three awards in absentia.)<\/p>\n

While Grohl has occasionally made live surprise cameos \u2014 with Lionel Richie at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, with Billie Eilish at Los Angeles’s Forum, with Sir Paul McCartney at Glastonbury \u2014 the band’s only live performances have been at two all-star tribute concerts held in London and Los Angeles this past September. But now, Foo Fighters have confirmed in an emotional social media post that they will<\/em> carry on without Hawkins \u2014 even though they will understandably be a “different band.”<\/p>\n

“As we say goodbye to the most difficult and tragic year that our band has ever known, we are reminded of how thankful we are for the people that we love and cherish most, and for the loved ones who are no longer with us,” the band stated. \u201cFoo Fighters were formed 27 years ago to represent the healing power of music and a continuation of life. And for the past 27 years our fans have built a worldwide community, a devoted support system that has helped us all get through the darkest of times together. A place to share our joy and our pain, our hopes and fears, and to join in a chorus of life together through music. Without Taylor, we never would have become the band that we were \u2014 and without Taylor, we know that we’re going to be a different band going forward. We also know that you, the fans, meant as much to Taylor as he meant to you. And we know that when we see you again \u2014 and we will soon \u2014 he’ll be there in spirit with all of us every night.\u201d<\/p>\n

The year and a half leading up to Hawkins’s shocking death had been an especially bustling and prolific time for the seemingly unstoppable Foo Fighters. They released their Grammy-winning 10th album Medicine at Midnight<\/em>the Record Store Day disco covers album Hall Satin<\/em>and the horror-comedy movie Studio 666<\/em>; performed at President Joe Biden’s inauguration; received the Global Icon Award at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards; and were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by McCartney.<\/p>\n

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