Obituaries

Foo Fighters Drummer & Fort Worth Native Taylor Hawkins Dead At 50

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March 26, 2022

Taylor Hawkins, the longtime drummer for the rock band Foo Fighters and Fort Worth native, has died. He was 50.

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There were no immediate details about how Hawkins died, though the band said in a statement Friday that his death was a “tragic and untimely loss.”

Foo Fighters were on tour in South America. They played a festival in San Isidro, Argentina on Sunday and had been scheduled to play at another in Bogotá, Colombia on Friday night.

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