Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died while on tour with the band in South America. He was 50.In a statement, Foo Fighters said: “The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins.
His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever. Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family, and we ask that their privacy be treated with the utmost respect in this unimaginably difficult time”.The band had been due to headline the Estereo Picnic festival in Bogota, Colombia.
During what would have been the band’s set time, a candlelit vigil was held on stage in Hawkins’ memory.Hawkins reportedly complained of chest pains on Friday night and when paramedics arrived at his hotel room he was found unresponsive.
Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful and he was declared dead at the scene.The office of Colombia’s Attorney General said in a statement on Saturday that an autopsy had found traces of ten different drugs in the drummer’s urine, including opioids, marijuana and antidepressants.Subsequently over the weekend Colombian news magazine Semana reported that investigators had confirmed that Hawkins had died from cardiovascular collapse following an overdose of heroin mixed with antidepressants and benzodiazepines.An autopsy is said to have found that his heart weighed twice what you would expect for a man his age, which can be a sign of several cardiac diseases.Hawkins previously survived a heroin overdose in 2001 which left him in a coma for two weeks.
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