Taylor Hawkins
Ozzy Osbourne Drafts Rock Legends for New Solo Album
Ozzy Osbourne has drafted a host of rock’n’roll heavy hitters for Patient Number 9, his new solo album due Sept. 9 via Epic. The title track, which features Jeff Beck on guitar, is out now, accompanied by a video directed by comic legend Todd McFarlane (Spawn, The Amazing Spider-Man). The new album was produced by Andrew Watt, following quickly on the heels of his work with Osbourne on 2020’s Ordinary Man. Among the guest artists are Osbourne’s Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi (who has never previously appeared on an Ozzy solo album), late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, Eric Clapton, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, longtime Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde and Metallica’s Robert Trujillo. Speaking of the title cut...
Ozzy Osbourne Drafts Rock Legends for New Solo Album
Ozzy Osbourne has drafted a host of rock’n’roll heavy hitters for Patient Number 9, his new solo album due Sept. 9 via Epic. The title track, which features Jeff Beck on guitar, is out now, accompanied by a video directed by comic legend Todd McFarlane (Spawn, The Amazing Spider-Man). The new album was produced by Andrew Watt, following quickly on the heels of his work with Osbourne on 2020’s Ordinary Man. Among the guest artists are Osbourne’s Black Sabbath bandmate Tony Iommi (who has never previously appeared on an Ozzy solo album), late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, Eric Clapton, Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, longtime Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde and Metallica’s Robert Trujillo. Speaking of the title cut...
Led Zeppelin, Nirvana Members Join Taylor Hawkins Tribute Show Lineups
A host of high-profile names have been added to the lineup for two upcoming Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts, which, as previously reported, will take place Sept. 3 at London’s Wembley Stadium and Sept. 27 at Los Angeles’ KIA Forum. Tickets for both shows are on sale now. Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Foo Fighters producer Greg Kurstin and veteran rock guitarist Alain Johannes will appear at both shows, while 12-year-old drumming sensation Nandi Bushell, Chic’s Nile Rodgers and Chris Rock will take the stage in London only. Pink, LeAnn Rimes and Heart’s Nancy Wilson have joined the bill for the Los Angeles show. These artists round out lineups featuring Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme an...
Led Zeppelin, Nirvana Members Join Taylor Hawkins Tribute Show Lineups
A host of high-profile names have been added to the lineup for two upcoming Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts, which, as previously reported, will take place Sept. 3 at London’s Wembley Stadium and Sept. 27 at Los Angeles’ KIA Forum. Tickets for both shows are on sale now. Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones, Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, Foo Fighters producer Greg Kurstin and veteran rock guitarist Alain Johannes will appear at both shows, while 12-year-old drumming sensation Nandi Bushell, Chic’s Nile Rodgers and Chris Rock will take the stage in London only. Pink, LeAnn Rimes and Heart’s Nancy Wilson have joined the bill for the Los Angeles show. These artists round out lineups featuring Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme an...
Alanis Morissette, Miley Cyrus, Joan Jett Set for Taylor Hawkins L.A. Tribute Concert
Hours after unveiling the star-packed lineup for a Taylor Hawkins tribute concert on Sept. 3 at London’s Wembley Stadium, Foo Fighters have revealed the guest artists for a second Hawkins celebration on Sept. 27 at the KIA Forum in Los Angeles. Tickets for both shows go on sale Friday (June 17) at 9 a.m. local time. Many of the same London performers will be on hand in Los Angeles, including Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme and The Police’s Stewart Copeland. Exclusive to the L.A. tribute are Alanis Morissette, with whom Hawkins worked during her massive Jagged Little Pill tour, Miley Cyrus, Joan Jett, Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, Motley Crue’s Nikki Sixx, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith and Rage Aga...
Members of Queen, Rush, The Police Set for London Taylor Hawkins Tribute
The first performers have been announced for the upcoming Taylor Hawkins tribute concert in London, and they include some of the most celebrated rock stars of all time — who also happen to be some of Hawkins’ closest friends. Queen’s Brian May and Roger Taylor, Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, The Police’s drummer Stewart Copeland, Pretenders leader Chrissie Hynde, Oasis vocalist Liam Gallagher, Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme, Supergrass and Mark Ronson are on the bill for the September 3 show at Wembley Stadium. Comedian Dave Chappelle, who stunned a sold-out crowd at New York’s Madison Square Garden last summer when he joined the Foos to sing Radiohead’s “Creep,” is listed as a special guest. Jane’s Addiction’s Chris Chaney, David Bowie drummer Omar Hakim, Queen touring member Ru...
Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concerts to Take Place in September
Two concerts to honor the memory of late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins will take place in September in London and Los Angeles. The surviving Foo Fighters members and Hawkins’ family are joining forces to put on the shows to celebrate his incredible musical legacy. No details have been revealed as of now, but the show is being billed as an “all-star rock and roll show.” They will take place on September 3 at Wembley Stadium in London and at The Kia Forum in Los Angeles on September 27. In a statement, Hawkins’ widow Alison thanked the Foo Fighters fans and community for their outpouring of love in the months following his death. You can see that full statement below. My deepest thanks and admiration go out to the global Foo Fighters community and Taylor’s fans far and wide for the out...
Watch 1,000 Musicians Play ‘My Hero’ in Mesmerizing Tribute to Taylor Hawkins
When a band loses a drummer like Taylor Hawkins — whose intensely physical style of playing was essential to the band’s sound — it’s hard to put into words what’s lost. With lead singers, you lose the words. With guitarists, the riffs. But with a drummer, the loss is like losing gravity altogether. That’s why Rockin1000’s recent performance at the Stade de France is the closest to portraying the magnitude of Hawkins’ musicianship, his contribution to the Foo Fighters, and how deeply he is missed by fans around the world. [embedded content][embedded content] At the event last Saturday, 1,000 drummers from all over the world, came together onstage to perform the Foo Fighters’ song, “My Hero.” The result is powerful and heartrending. At this point, it’s also the most appropriate tribute we’ve...
Pearl Jam Honor Taylor Hawkins With Foo Fighters Cover
Pearl Jam paid tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins last night (May 7) in Los Angeles, performing the Hawkins-sung Foos song “Cold Day in the Sun” during their second of two shows at the Kia Forum. Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron, Hawkins’ friend and collaborator in Nighttime Boogie Association, took the mic and also played guitar during the performance. Cameron collaborator Mark Guiliana played drums and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith chipped in on tambourine. [embedded content][embedded content] “Cold Day in the Sun” was Hawkins’ most well-known lead vocal with the Foos and a staple of the band’s live shows. The musician died suddenly on March 25 in Bogota while on tour with the band in support of its Grammy-winning album Medicine at Midnight. “It’s never easy whe...
Pearl Jam Salutes Friends, Family, Taylor Hawkins at Gigaton Tour Opener
Pearl Jam was in a reflective mood last night (May 3) at San Diego’s Viejas Arena for the oft-postponed opener of its North American tour in support of the 2020 album Gigaton. Performing in a city where both frontman Eddie Vedder and drummer Matt Cameron have long-standing roots, the band saluted a host of friends and family in the audience, as well as Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who died suddenly in March. Vedder revealed early in the show that Pearl Jam had chosen songs that had “something to do with the ocean, even if they don’t mention it in the words. Half of them were written in the ocean anyway.” Indeed, beyond opener “Oceans,” “Amongst the Waves” and “Given to Fly,” the band also played its famed “Mamasan” trilogy of “Alive,” “Once” and “Footsteps” (albeit in reverse order...
Taylor Hawkins Appears Posthumously On New Edgar Winter LP
Less than a month after his sudden death at age 50 in Bogota, Colombia, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins appears posthumously on the new album from blues-rock veteran Edgar Winter, Brother Johnny, out today (April 15) on Quarto Valley Records. Hawkins handles vocals on “Guess I’ll Go Away,” which originally appeared as the opening song on the late Johnny Winter’s 1970 album, Johnny Winter And. “It stands out in my mind as the highest energy and hardest rocking song on the entire album,” Edgar wrote on his Web site the day after Hawkins died. “I have always considered it stylistically the most uncharacteristically advanced song Johnny ever wrote — almost a precursor of heavy metal.” For this reason, Brother Johnny producer Ross Hogarth suggested his longtime coll...
Billie Eilish Stole the Grammys Singing ‘Happier Than Ever’ in Taylor Hawkins Shirt
Billie Eilish paid tribute to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins during her Grammy performance of “Happier Than Ever” tonight (April 3) in Las Vegas, as she wore a black t-shirt emblazoned with Hawkins’ smiling face. Eilish received a standing ovation at the close of the song when she lightly lifted the shirt off of her body in a further salute to Hawkins. The performance started with Eilish traversing a set resembling a hotel room, filled to her ankles with water and a couch suspended from the ceiling. Halfway through, she walked through a door and emerged on top of the set, where her brother Finneas was slashing away on guitar. The musicians were showered with rain during the song’s powerful conclusion. Eilish and Finneas performed in Seattle the same night (March 25) Hawkins died ...
