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Brian may roger taylor8/24/2023 Liam Gallagher kicked off the live music today, performing two Oasis songs with the help of the surviving members of Foo Fighters, while the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith shared a heartwarming story about Hawkins in a special video message. “Taylor Hawkins is a legend of a man, he’s a legend of a musician and he’s a legend of a father.” “I’ve seen Taylor be a rock star many nights but it was my first time seeing him be a dad, and what a cool fucking dad,” he said. “For those of you who knew him personally, you know that no one else could make you smile, or laugh, or dance, or sing like he could,” the frontman said.Ĭomedian Dave Chappelle also recalled spending time with the rock star and his son in New York. Grohl and Hawkins’ Foo Fighter bandmates opened the concert with an emotional speech that paid tribute to their late drummer. ‘Love Of My Life’ (Brian May performing solo) ‘Under Pressure’ (with Justin Hawkins of The Darkness)ĥ. ‘We Will Rock You’ (with Luke Spiller of The Struts)ģ. Have a look at the full Foos/Queen performance below:ġ. Hawkins was a noted superfan of the British rock icons, and Foos sets would often see the drummer take over from Dave Grohl to perform lead vocals on a cover of ‘Somebody To Love’. The Queen/Foos supergroup were introduced with archival footage of Hawkins himself, who welcomed Roger Taylor out at one of the Foos own shows before he passed. The special gig – which took place at Wembley Stadium last night (September 3) and was simulcast all over the web, TV and streaming platforms – honoured the late Foos drummer with performances from Liam Gallagher, Mark Ronson, Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme, Supergrass, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich and AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, Blink-182’s Travis Barker, Kesha, and more. READ MORE: Taylor Hawkins, 1972 – 2022: Foo Fighters drummer who always stole the show.It’s one of those songs where even if the winds are blowing in the wrong direction it still sounds good.Both active founding members of Queen – lead guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor – joined the Foo Fighters to perform a five-song set of their own hits at the first Taylor Hawkins tribute concert. And I don’t know how many times I’ve played it, but it always pulls something out of you. I’d say my favourite Freddie song to play is We Are The Champions – still. Another favourite is The Miracle, which has an incredible lightness to it. ![]() "I remember him coming into the studio and saying: “I’ve got this idea… just give me a few minutes.” Then he brought it to life. He could obviously hear it all in his head, although he didn’t have any musical instruments with him. One of the last songs he wrote, A Winter’s Tale, was written purely sat looking out on the mountains from the other side of Lake Geneva. It could be any experience a skate on the pond. Freddie mainly used the piano for songwriting, but there were times when he’d get inspiration when he wasn’t around his instrument. "But there are exceptions, where he’d get the song in one bite. Occasionally Freddie would write fast, but a lot of the time he’d go home and scheme and scheme, and come back with stuff written all over a pad of his dad’s notepaper. We were very conscious that we had to reach inside ourselves to keep up. "It was a major factor in pushing us onwards. "There was huge songwriting competition in Queen, no doubt about it," remembered Brian May. ![]() I think the talent was innate, but he dug deep inside himself and forced it out. I always called him ‘the man who invented himself’. But then he’d come up with a Killer Queen or, later on, lots of simple things like Crazy Little Thing. "When you write songs that complex, you have to work hard at it, and it did involve a lot of head-scratching. When he wrote The Fairy Feller’s Master-Stroke, on the second album, he was crossing sections of six-part harmonies, and I thought: 'Bloody hell, that is tricky stuff.' Then there’s The March Of The Black Queen, which is almost like prog-rock, and so outrageously complicated that I can’t even remember the arrangement myself. "I’d say it was Freddie’s actual musicality which was the cleverest thing of all, the notes, and his harmonic structure was quite brilliant. We had fun coming up with daft things, all those ridiculous phrases. Some lyrics we wrote together, like I’m Going Slightly Mad, which was funny. He was having a good time, and that was very much a cri de coeur. ![]() Actually, at the bottom of it all was just a genius songwriter. But it’s when you delve deeper that you really get his musicality. "It doesn’t frustrate me, because I’m just pleased he’s remembered. "Everybody gets so mixed up with all the other sides: the flash, the sexual ambiguity, the showmanship, the voice…," Roger Taylor told Classic Rock in 2011.
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