Dave Grohl Breaks Down On Stage While Performing “Times Like These” At Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert

Dave Grohl broke down in tears on stage whereas singing “Occasions Like These” through the Taylor Hawkins Tribute live performance at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday.

The 53-year-old Foo Fighters frontman was performing along with his band on the star-studded occasion which paid tribute to their late bandmate, who died abruptly in March on the age of fifty.

“It is occasions like these that you simply be taught to reside once more,” Grohl sang, hanging on to the mic as tears streamed down his face.

Dave Grohl (pictured right here in 2021) broke down on stage as he sang ‘Occasions Like These’ throughout Taylor Hawkins’ Tribute live performance at Wembley Stadium in London on Saturday
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“It is occasions like these that you simply give and provides again,” he continued, his voice cracking on the final two phrases of the lyrics.

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The 18-time Grammy Award winner stopped and wiped his face because the viewers erupted in cheers of help. For just a few moments he struggled to proceed the efficiency earlier than resting his brow on the microphone and shaking his head.

Grohl pulled himself collectively, although he was visibly overwhelmed with emotion. He began singing once more earlier than launching into the subsequent upbeat a part of the 2002 hit as he rocked out along with his bandmates. The poignant second was rapidly shared in clips followers posted to Twitter.

Saturday’s six-hour gig featured an all-star line-up that included Dave Chappelle, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Jason Sudeikis, Liam Gallagher and Travis Barker, amongst others, as a few of the greatest names in music lined up gathered to have fun the lifetime of the late drummer.

It was the primary of two tribute concert events that surviving members of the band and Hawkins’ household have deliberate to honor him. The second live performance will happen on September 27 on the Kia Discussion board in Los Angeles. Proceeds from each concert events will likely be donated to the charities Music Help and MusiCares.

The Foo Fighters frontman was performing along with his band on the star-studded occasion which paid tribute to their late bandmate, who died abruptly in March on the age of fifty.
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In line with NME, Grohl began the night with a shifting speech after the viewers started chanting Hawkins’ identify, telling the group, “Women and gents, tonight we now have gathered right here to have fun life, music and the love of our expensive good friend, our teammate, our brother Taylor Hawkins.”

“For these of you who knew him personally, you understand nobody else might make you smile, chortle, dance or sing like him,” the hitmaker continued. “And for these of you who admired him from afar, I am positive you all felt the identical method.”

Grohl added, “So tonight we have come collectively along with his closest household and associates, his musical heroes and his greatest inspirations, to provide you a huge fucking night time for a huge fucking individual.”

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“So sing. And dance. And chortle. And cry and scream and make a fucking noise, so he can hear us immediately,” he added. “As a result of you understand what? It’ll be a fucking lengthy night time, is not it? Are you prepared?”

Hawkins died March 25 on the 4 Seasons Casa Medina lodge in Bogotá, Colombia, hours earlier than the Foo Fighters’ scheduled efficiency on the Estéreo Picnic Pageant. Emergency providers have been known as to the lodge after he started to expertise chest pains. He was discovered unconscious once they arrived and pronounced lifeless on the scene.

Hawkins died March 25 on the 4 Seasons Casa Medina lodge in Bogotá, Colombia.
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Colombia’s lawyer normal’s workplace introduced the subsequent day that ten totally different substances had been present in a preliminary urine toxicology check, together with opioids, benzodiazepines, THC and tricyclic antidepressants. An official reason for dying has but to be launched.

In addition to being bandmates, Grohl and Hawkins shared an especially shut friendship. The musician known as Hawkins “my brother from one other mom, my greatest good friend, a person I would take a bullet for,” in his 2021 memoir “The Storyteller.”

Following his dying, the band launched a press release on Twitter which learn, “The Foo Fighters household is devastated by the tragic and premature lack of our beloved Taylor Hawkins.”

“His musical spirit and infectious laughter will reside with us all endlessly. Our ideas are along with his spouse, kids and household, and we ask that their privateness be handled with the utmost respect at this extremely troublesome time.”

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The band subsequently canceled all scheduled gigs with a purpose to mourn the lack of Hawkins. Saturday’s live performance marked the Foo Fighters’ first efficiency since Hawkins’ dying.