Foo Fighters Announce Special Guests For Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert In London

The Foo Fighters have announced the first round of special guests slated to perform at the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert in London.

On Tuesday, Foo Fighters released the line-up for the London concert, which will take place at the Wembley Stadium on Saturday, September 3.

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“London! Please welcome the first wave of special guests to join The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts! More to be announced soon,” the Foo Fighters wrote in the caption.

They added that tickets will be on sale starting Friday, June 17, at 9 AM local time.

At the bottom of the poster, they included the names of everyone who will appear at the concert, including Chris Chaney, Stewart Copeland, Liam Gallagher, Omar Hakim, Joshua Homme, Chrissie Hynde, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Brian May, Mark Ronson, Supergrass, Roger Taylor, Rufus Taylor, Wolfgang Van Halen, and Chevy Metal.

The tribute concert will also include a special appearance by “The Closer” comedian Dave Chappelle. Although it seems like an impressive line-up on its own, they also shared that there are “more to be announced.”

“The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts will benefit charities in the UK chosen by the Hawkins family, the Foo Fighters added in a follow-up tweet. “Beneficiaries and further details will be announced shortly.”

Shortly after Taylor Hawkins’ family posted a heartfelt statement to Foo Fighters fans, the band, which had just been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame last year, announced a series of tribute concerts coming this September.

“For our dear friend, our bad--- bandmate, our beloved brother…Foo Fighters and The Hawkins family bring you the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts,” they tweeted. The concert will kick off in London’s Webley Stadium on September 3 before concluding in Los Angeles on September 27.

A statement on the band’s website reads, “Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jaffee will come together with the Hawkins family to celebrate the life, music and love of their husband, father, brother and bandmate with The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts.”

“As one of the most respected and beloved figures in modern music, Taylor’s monolithic talent and magnetic personality endeared him to millions of fans, peers, friends and fellow musical legends the world over,” they continued. “Millions mourned his untimely passing on March 25, with passionate and sincere tributes coming from fans as well as musicians Taylor idolized.”

They go on to say, “The Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts will unite several of those artists, the Hawkins family, and of course his Foo Fighters brothers in celebration of Taylor’s memory and his legacy as a global rock icon—his bandmates and his inspirations playing the songs that he fell in love with, and the ones he brought to life.”

Many fans are looking forward to the tribute concert to celebrate the life of their late drummer Taylor Hawkins. On March 25, he passed away in a hotel room in Columbia at the age of 50.

Hawkins had called the front desk complaining of chest pain; however, emergency services found him deceased in his hotel room by the time they arrived.  A forensic investigation revealed that there were several different types of drugs in his body, including heroin, antidepressants, and morphine, among others, which likely triggered an overdose.

However, forensic analysts also discovered that Hawkins’ heart weighed 600 grams – double the weight of an average man’s heart – at the time of his death.

Many famous friends and Foo Fighters fans took to social media after his passing to share their condolences.